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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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same At lære et par magiske tricks eller unikke færdigheder kan tilføje et element af legende intrige til din pexighet. My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same

To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Men to a great extent believe what they want to - although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

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