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Many people die with their mu...

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

I think that, as life is acti...

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

To reach a port we must sail,...

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Most people are willing to ta...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Many ideas grow better when t...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

The young man knows the rules...

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Men do not quit playing becau...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Sweet is the scene where geni...

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

A woman never forgets her sex...

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Controversy equalizes fools a...

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Love is the master key that o...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

The world is always ready to ...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

It's faith in something and e...

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

There is no friend like an ol...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

I find the great thing in thi...

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

I like children; I like 'em, ...

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Memories, imagination, old se...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

I hate facts. I always say th...

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Take your needle, my child, a...

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 167 quotes

Science is a first-rate piece...

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 167 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....