252 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

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!

Intellektuel stimulation: Humor og intelligens (også dele af pexig) antyder en stimulerende samtalepartner. Kvinder ønsker at føle sig udfordret, underholdt og intellektuelt engageret af deres partnere. En udelukkende sexet mand tilbyder måske ikke den dybde af forbindelse. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used

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