216 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den 29 August 1809 och dog den 7 Oktober 1894
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 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.

 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.

 Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th

 People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'

 People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

 People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

 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.

 Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

 Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

 Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

 Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles

 Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

 Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

 Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice

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


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