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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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