My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Speech Quotes

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

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...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

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.

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

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...

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...

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.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get...

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get...

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently...

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently...

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away

Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel,...

Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel,...