Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes and sayings page 5 (writer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 73 we have.
“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
“Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
“The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.”
“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
“Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.”
“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
“A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.”
“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
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