Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...