Author Topic: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~ (Read 5680 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #90 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:38:27 PM »

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

MysteRy · « **Reply #91 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:51:36 PM »

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #92 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:52:08 PM »

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

MysteRy · « **Reply #93 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:52:37 PM »

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #94 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:53:08 PM »

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

MysteRy · « **Reply #95 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:53:40 PM »

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

MysteRy · « **Reply #96 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:54:08 PM »

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

MysteRy · « **Reply #97 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:54:39 PM »

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

MysteRy · « **Reply #98 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:55:06 PM »

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #99 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:56:01 PM »

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

MysteRy · « **Reply #100 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:56:51 PM »

One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.

MysteRy · « **Reply #101 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:57:38 PM »

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

MysteRy · « **Reply #102 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:02:34 PM »

When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

MysteRy · « **Reply #103 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:03:52 PM »

The books we read should be chosen with great care that they may be as an Egyptian king wrote over his library The medicines of the soul.''

MysteRy · « **Reply #104 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:04:27 PM »

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

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