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Man is born a predestined idea...

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The morning cup of coffee has ...

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

No families take so little med...

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Me wretched! Let me curr to qu...

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!
Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--
Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Seventeen hundred and fifty-fi...

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,--
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

And if I should live to be

And if I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile, as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

But when men have realized tha...

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It's a good thing to be rich a...

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Pretty much all the honest tru...

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

There is no time like the old ...

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To know is not less than to fe...

To know is not less than to feel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Even a dog distinguishes betwe...

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Leverage is everything-don't b...

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Our test of truth is a referen...

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

One of the eternal conflicts o...

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Free competition is worth more...

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The common law is not a broodi...

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

I would never use a long word,...

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Young feller, you will never a...

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Deep-seated preferences cannot...

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

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