Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes and sayings page 4 (writer). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 73 we have.
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
“I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.”
“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.”
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
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