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Speak clearly, if you speak a...

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Don't you stay at home of eve...

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 167 quotes

A few can touch the magic str...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

But friendship is the breathi...

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

The mind of a bigot to the pu...

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

A pun does not commonly justi...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Grow we must, if we outgrow a...

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Do not be bullied out of your...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Fresh air is good if you do n...

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 167 quotes

Some people are so heavenly m...

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Apology is only egotism wrong...

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

A person is always startled w...

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

The real religion of the worl...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

A goose flies by a chart whic...

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

The sound of a kiss is not so...

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

It is the province of knowled...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

A man may fulfill the object ...

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Our brains are seventy-year c...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

To be seventy years young is ...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Don't flatter yourselves that...

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

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