252 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den 29 august 1809 och dog den 7 oktober 1894 - amerikansk läkare och författare.
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 To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
| When the last reader reads no more. |
| And since, I never dare to write / As funny as I can. At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. |
| Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. |
| Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? |
| I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. |
| Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! |
| Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years |
| Easy crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting |
| 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. |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
| To live is to function. That is all there is in living. |
| I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea. |
| Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden. |
| The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. |
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