Quotes about Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have the courage to act instead of react.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes