Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

American writer and poet

Alive from: 1809-1894

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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  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?

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  It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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  A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
  

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  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!

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  A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

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

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  A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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  A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

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  A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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  A new untruth is better than an old truth.

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  A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

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  A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

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  A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

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