01c. 1809 ADA 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1809 ADWhy can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
03c. 1809 ADFor me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
04c. 1809 ADWhen I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
05c. 1809 ADWhen you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
06c. 1809 ADThe mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
07c. 1809 ADI hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
09c. 1809 ADA minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
10c. 1809 ADMen are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
13c. 1809 ADA sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
14c. 1809 ADThe secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
15c. 1809 ADSpeak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
16c. 1809 ADThe reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
17c. 1809 ADThe world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
18c. 1809 ADTalking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
19c. 1809 ADWhen I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
20c. 1809 ADEvery real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
22c. 1809 ADTake 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 embroidery.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
24c. 1809 ADRough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
