Best Oliver W Holmes Quotes and Quotations

Best Oliver W Holmes Quotes and Quotations

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one they where they sprang up
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts s great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A 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
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming".
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holme