Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
Born: Aug 29, 1809
Died: Oct 7, 1894
Every Life Man Old World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Side Out Only Wrong Wrong Side Egotism Apology
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Good Stillness Marks Signal Steadiness Features Person Breeding Good Breeding
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth Light Rarely Sought After
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Cincinnati Worse Comfort Maker Sounds Verse Chicago Rough
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life Good You Too Much Too Air Pleasures Bad Take Most Fresh Fresh Air Achievements Much
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Good Man Science Patient Sense Worse Furniture Plenty More He Piece First-Rate Got His Upper Common Common Sense Chamber
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Man Soul Worth Damn Worrying Would Would-Be About Generally Always His Whether Who
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love Home You Corner Slippers Stay Stay-At-Home Feet Cushioned Your Evenings Seat
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Nature Blessed Out Critics Invented She Make Were Left Patented Authors Contrived Chips Her Thing
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Think Aim Our Say Like Institutions End Very May Just
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Memories Old Smell Sense Imagination Other Channel More Through Reached Readily Than Any Sentiments Associations
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Man Thought Master Past Every Run Must Would Except Him Caught Event Ever Reins
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Somebody Everybody Says Give Nobody Another List Us Why Things Thinks
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