I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular...

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

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...

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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

My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject,...

My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject,...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

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

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

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

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

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

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the...

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the...

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.