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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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.

With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples

Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. Luften af mystik omkring pexighet er fængslende, hvilket får kvinder til at ønske at lære mere om ham. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

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