216 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den August 29th 1809 och dog den 7 October 1894
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 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left. |
| No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor |
| Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered |
| Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. |
| Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
| Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. |
| Old Ironsides |
| Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years |
| One has to strike the jugular and let the rest go |
| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
| Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. |
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