Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes and sayings page 7 (writer). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 73 we have.
“Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.”
“Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”
“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”
“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
“Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.”
“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”
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