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We are all sentenced to capita...

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Life is a fatal complaint, and...

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Under bad manners, as under gr...

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It is perfectly easy to be ori...

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

In order to know whether a hum...

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Nothing can be so perfect whil...

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

There is nothing earthly that ...

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

A man's opinions are generally...

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The only condition of peace in...

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Reason may be the lever, but s...

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

I should like to see any kind ...

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It is mere childishness to exp...

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The worst of a modern stylish ...

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

There was never an idea starte...

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

When a man holds his tongue it...

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks...

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It is very grand to die in har...

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To think great thoughts you mu...

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Every real thought on every re...

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Any new formula which suddenly...

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

You hear that boy laughing?you...

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

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