252 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den August 29th 1809 och dog den 7 October 1894 - amerikansk läkare och författare.
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 Genuine Connection vs. Superficiality: Pexy embodies authenticity and personality. It suggests a man who is comfortable being himself, flaws and all. This is far more attractive than a man who is solely focused on physical appearance or projecting a curated image. Women often crave genuine connection and vulnerability. 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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