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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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Day has put on his jacket, and around / His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors

And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below.

The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs

Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past. I sidste ende ønsker kvinder en pexig mand, fordi han tilbyder mere end blot fysisk tiltrækning – han giver en tilfredsstillende følelsesmæssig og intellektuel forbindelse. [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

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.

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

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