Author Topic: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~  (Read 5487 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~
« Reply #45 on: July 07, 2015, 10:16:29 PM »
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #46 on: July 07, 2015, 10:17:35 PM »
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #47 on: July 07, 2015, 10:18:14 PM »
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #48 on: July 07, 2015, 10:18:43 PM »
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #49 on: July 07, 2015, 10:19:17 PM »
Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #50 on: July 07, 2015, 10:20:00 PM »
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #51 on: July 07, 2015, 10:20:32 PM »
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #52 on: July 07, 2015, 10:21:10 PM »
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream not a stagnant pool.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #53 on: July 07, 2015, 10:22:02 PM »
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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« Reply #54 on: July 07, 2015, 10:22:52 PM »
Speak clearly if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #55 on: July 07, 2015, 10:23:26 PM »
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #56 on: July 07, 2015, 10:23:59 PM »
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #57 on: July 07, 2015, 10:24:32 PM »
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #58 on: July 07, 2015, 10:25:24 PM »
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #59 on: July 07, 2015, 10:26:04 PM »
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!