Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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...

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

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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...

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

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

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

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.

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

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

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

When in doubt, do it.

When in doubt, do it.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

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...

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the...

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the...