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W. HOLMES, SR. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell +Holmes Sr., by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + +Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #7545] +Last Updated: October 26, 20012 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FOR O. W. HOLMES *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div class="mynote"> + <i><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7545/old/orig7545-h/main.htm"> + LINK TO THE ORIGINAL HTML FILE: This Ebook Has Been Reformatted For Better + Appearance In Mobile Viewers Such As Kindles And Others. The Original + Format, Which The Editor Believes Has A More Attractive Appearance For + Laptops And Other Computers, May Be Viewed By Clicking On This BOX.</a></i> + </div> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h1> + OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES + </h1> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h3> + Editor's Note + </h3> + <blockquote> + <p> + This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name who was a + Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr. + Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine. Though + his world-wide fame was based on his prose and poetry, he was an eminent + leader in medicine. Many—too many years ago I would often assign + Holmes' "Medical Essays" to a medical student whose sharp edges of + science needed some rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no + longer the privilege of assigning anything to anybody, yet encourage any + of you, especially any who may be physicians, to read the thoughts of a + family doctor of the early 1800's. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="holmes65.jpg (27K)" src="images/holmes65.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="holmes40.jpg (21K)" src="images/holmes40.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="holmes65.jpg (27K)" src="images/holmes65.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="holmes75.jpg (27K)" src="images/holmes75.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + +A misprint kills a sensitive author + +Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies + +Advised every literary man to have a +profession. + +Afraid of books who have not handled +them from infancy + +Age and neglect united gradually + +Agreed on certain ultimata of belief + +Algebraic symbols of minds which have +grown too weak + +All his geese are swans + +All men are bores, except when we want +them + +All men love all women + +All the forms of moral excellence, +except truth + +All want to reach old age and grumble +when they get it + +And now we two are walking the long +path in peace together + +Another privilege of talking is to +misquote + +Arc in the movement of a large +intellect + +As I understand truth + +As to clever people's hating each other + +As a child, he should have tumbled +about in a library + +Asked Solon what made him dare to be so +obstinate + +Assume a standard of judgment in our +own minds + +At the mercy of every superior mind + +Audacious self-esteem, with good ground +for it + +Automatic and involuntary actions of +the mind + +Babbage's calculating machine + +Be very careful to whom you trust one +of these keys + +Beautiful effects from wit,—all the +prismatic colors + +Been in the same precise circumstances +before + +Behave like men and gentlemen about it, +if you know how. + +Beliefs are rooted in human wants and +weakness, and die hard + +Bells which small trades-people connect +with their shop-doors + +Better for mankind,—and all the worse +for the fishes + +Better too few words, from the woman we +love + +Bewitching cup of self-quackery + +Bill which will render pockets a +superfluity in your next suit + +Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy + +Bowing and nodding over the music + +Brain often runs away with the heart's +best blood + +Brilliant flashes—of silence! + +Brute beasts of the intellectual domain + +Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, +hopes, and terrors + +But we must sail, and not drift, nor +lie at anchor. + +But it was in talking of Life that we +came most nearly together + +Called an old man for the first time + +Character is distinctly shown at the +age of four months. + +Cigar + +Clairvoyance which sees into things +without opening them + +Code of finalities is a necessary +condition of profitable talk + +Cold shower-bath the world furnishes +gratis + +Comfort is essential to enjoyment + +Commerce is just putting his granite +foot upon them + +Common sense, as you understand it. + +Common sense was good enough for him + +Compare the racer with the trotter + +Conceit is just a natural thing to +human minds + +Conceit has the virtue of making them +cheerful + +Conclusion that he or she is really +dull + +Conflicting advice of all manner of +officious friends + +Consciousness of carrying a "settler" +in the form of a fact + +Controversy + +Conversation which is suggestive rather +than argumentative + +Conversational fungi spring up most +luxuriantly + +Conversational bully + +Conversational blank checks or counters + +Conversational soprano + +Creative action is not voluntary at all + +Crippled souls + +Crow with a king-bird after him + +Cut your climate to your constitution + +Dangerous subjects + +Demand for intellectual labor is so +enormous + +Did I believe in love at first sight? + +Didn't know Truth was such an invalid + +Differ on the fundamental principles + +Dishwater from the washings of English +dandyism + +Disputing about remainders and +fractions + +Do wish she would get well—or +something + +Do you know how important good +jockeying is to authors? + +Do you ever wonder why poets talk so +much about flowers? + +Do not be bullied out of your common +sense by the specialist + +Don't make your moral staple consist of +the negative virtues + +Don't believe any man ever talked like +that in this world + +Don't begin to pry till you have got +the long arm on your side + +Don't ever think the poetry is dead in +an old man + +Don't be in a hurry to choose your +friends + +Doomed to the pangs of an undeceived +self-estimate + +Dullest of teachers is the one who does +not know what to omit + +Dulness is not commonly a game fish + +Earned your money by the dose you have +taken + +Easier to dispute it than to disprove +it + +Easier to say this than to prove it + +Educational factory + +Elysian abandonment of a huge recumbent +chair. + +Every person's feelings have a +front-door and a side-door + +Extra talent does sometimes make people +jealous + +Facts always yield the place of honor, +in conversation + +Fall silent and think they are thinking + +Few, if any, were ruined by drinking + +Flash terms for words which truly +characterize their objects. + +Fortune is the measure of intelligence + +Fortune had left her, sorrow had +baptized her + +Friendship authorizes you to say +disagreeable things + +Gambling with dice or stocks + +Gambling, on the great scale, is not +republican + +Generalize the disease and +individualize the patient + +Generally ruined before they became +drunkards + +Genius in an essentially common person +is detestable + +Gift of seeing themselves in the true +light + +Give it an intellectual shake and hold +it up to the light + +Give us the luxuries of life + +Good for nothing until they have been +long kept and used + +Good feeling helps society to make +liars of most of us + +Good Americans, when they die, go to +Paris + +Got his hand up, as a pointer lifts his +forefoot + +Governed, not by, but according to laws + +Grave without a stone where nothing but +a man is buried + +Great silent-moving misery puts a new +stamp on us + +Grow we must, if we outgrow all that we +love + +Grow old early, if you would be old +long + +Habit is a labor-saving invention + +Habits are the crutches of old age + +Half knowledge dreads nothing but whole +knowledge + +Half-censure divided between the +parties + +Hard it is for some people to get out +of a room + +He did not know so much about old age +then as he does now + +He that has once done you a kindness + +He who is carried by horses must deal +with rogues + +Height of art to conceal art + +Her breathing was somewhat hurried and +high, or thoracic + +Here lies buried the soul of the +licentiate Pedro Garcias + +Hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer + +Hold their outspread hands over your +head + +Holes in all her pockets + +Hoped he did deserve a little abuse +occasionally + +Hopelessly dull discourse acts +inductively + +How long will school-keeping take to +kill you? + +Hung with moss, looking like bearded +Druids + +Hydrostatic paradox of controversy + +I always believed in life rather than +in books + +I always break down when folks cry in +my face + +I allow no "facts" at this table + +I show my thought, another his + +I tell my secrets too easily when I am +downhearted. + +I love horses + +I think I have not been attacked enough +for it + +I never think I have hit hard unless it +rebounds + +I replied with my usual forbearance + +I am my own son, as it seems to me + +I had not thought love was ever meant +for me. + +I hate books + +I have lived by the sea-shore and by +the mountains + +I have taken all knowledge to be my +province + +If so and so, we should have been this +or that + +If they have run as well as they knew +how! + +If I thought I should ever see the +Alps! + +Il faut ne pas BRUTALISER la machine + +In what direction we are moving + +Incipit Allegoria Senectutis. + +Infinite ocean of similitudes and +analogies + +Insanity is often the logic of an +accurate mind overtasked + +Insanity + +Intellectual companions can be found +easily + +Is this the mighty ocean?—is this all? + +It is by little things that we know +ourselves + +It is pleasant to be foolish at the +right time + +Judge men's minds by comparing with +mine + +Keep his wit in the background + +Key to this side-door + +Knowledge and timber only useful when +seasoned + +La main de fer sous le gant de velours + +Laid the egg of the Reformation which +Luther hatched + +Laughs at times at the grand airs +"Science" puts on + +Law of the road with regard to handsome +faces + +Leading a string of my mind's daughters +to market + +Leap at a single bound into celebrity + +Learn anything twice as easily as in my +earlier days + +Leave your friend to learn unpleasant +truths from his enemies + +Lecturer is public property + +Let us cry! + +Liability of all men to be elected to +public office + +Life would be nothing without +paper-credit + +Life is maintained by the respiration +of oxygen and of sentiment + +Like taking the cat in your lap after +holding a squirrel + +Listen to what others say about +subjects you have studied + +Little great man + +Little muscle which knows its +importance + +Little narrow streaks of specialized +knowledge + +Live on the reputation of the +reputation they might have made + +Living in a narrow world of dry habits + +Logic + +Logicians carry the surveyor's chain +over the track + +Long illness is the real vampyrism + +Look through the silvered rings of the +arcus senilis! + +Love must be either rich or rosy + +Love is sparingly soluble in the words +of men + +Love-capacity is a congenital endowment + +Lying is unprofitable + +Made up your mind to do when you ask +them for advice + +Man of family + +Man who means to be honest for a +literary pickpocket + +Man is father to the boy that was + +Man's and a woman's dusting a library + +Man's first life-story shall clean him +out, so to speak + +Mathematical fact + +May doubt everything to-day if I will +only do it civilly + +Meaningless blushing + +Mechanical invention had exhausted +itself + +Memory is a net + +Men that know everything except how to +make a living + +Men grow sweet a little while before +they begin to decay + +Men of facts wait their turn in grim +silence + +Men who have found new occupations when +growing old + +Men that it weakens one to talk with an +hour + +Men are fools, cowards, and liars all +at once + +Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less +money! + +Moralist and occasional sermonizer + +Most of our common, working beliefs are +probabilities + +Moved as if all her articulations were +elbow-joints + +Much ashamed of some people for +retaining their reason + +Must not read such a string of verses +too literally + +Must sail sometimes with the wind and +sometimes against it + +Must be weaned from his late suppers +now + +Napoleon's test + +Nature dresses and undresses them + +Nature, who always has her pockets full +of seeds + +Nearest approach to flying that man has +ever made + +Neither make too much of flaws or +overstatements + +Never forget where they have put their +money + +No families take so little medicine as +those of doctors + +No fresh truth ever gets into a book + +No man knows his own voice + +Nobody is so old he doesn't think he +can live a year + +None of my business to inquire what +other persons think + +Nutritious diet of active sympathetic +benevolence + +Oblivion as residuary legatee + +Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library + +Odious trick of speech or manners must +be got rid of. + +Oh, so patient she is, this +imperturbable Nature! + +Old Age + +Old age appear as a series of personal +insults and indignities + +Old jokes are dynamometers of mental +tension + +One very sad thing in old friendships + +One whose patients are willing to die +in his hands + +One doesn't like to be cruel,—and yet +one hates to lie + +One that goes in a nurse may come out +an angel + +One can generally tell these wholesale +thieves easily enough + +Open patches where the sun gets in and +goes to sleep + +Oracle + +Original, though you have uttered it a +hundred times + +Ought to produce insanity in every +well-regulated mind + +Our brains are seventy-year clocks + +Overrate their own flesh and blood + +Painted there by reflection from our +faces + +Passion never laughs + +People in the green stage of millionism + +People that make puns are like wanton +boys + +Person is really full of information, +and does not abuse it + +Personal incidents that call up single +sharp pictures + +Physical necessity to talk out what is +in the mind + +Picket-guard at the extreme outpost + +Plagiarism + +Pluck survives stamina + +Poem must be kept and used, like a +meerschaum, or a violin + +Poetry, instead of making one other +heart happy + +Poetry of words is quite as beautiful +as that of sentences + +Poor creature that does not often +repeat himself + +Poverty is evidence of limited capacity + +Power of human beings is a very +strictly limited agency + +Power of music + +Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance + +Pride, in the sense of contemning +others + +Probabilities + +Project a principle full in the face of +obvious fact! + +Provincial conceit, which some of us +must plead guilty to. + +Pseudo-science + +Pseudological inanity + +Public itself, which insists on being +poisoned + +Pun is prima facie an insult + +Put coppers on the railroad-tracks + +Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he +done? + +Quackery and idolatry are all but +immortal + +Question everything + +Racing horses are essentially gambling +implements + +Rapidity with which ideas grow old in +our memories + +Rather meet three of the scowlers than +one of the smilers. + +Rather longer than usual dressing that +morning + +Regained my freedom with a sigh + +Religious mental disturbances + +Remarkably intelligent audience + +Remarks like so many postage-stamps + +Returning thanks after a dinner of many +courses + +Ribbon which has strangled so many +false pretensions + +Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow + +Saddle-leather is in some respects even +preferable + +Saint may be a sinner that never got +down to "hard pan" + +Saturation-point of each mind differs +from that of every other + +Saying one thing about it and believing +another + +Scientific certainty has no spring in +it + +Scientific knowledge + +Second story projecting + +See if the ripe fruit were better or +worse + +Self-assertion, such as free suffrage +introduces + +Self-love is a cup without any bottom + +Self-made men? + +Self-unconsciousness of genius + +Sense of SMELL + +Sentenced to capital punishment for the +crime of living + +"Sentimentality," which is sentiment +overdone + +"Settler" in the form of a fact or a +revolver + +Several false premises + +Shake the same bough again + +She who nips off the end of a brittle +courtesy + +She always laughs and cries in the +right places + +Shut out, not all light, but all the +light they do not want + +Shy of asking questions of those who +know enough to destroy + +SIN has many tools, but a lie is the +handle which fits them all + +Single combats between dead authors and +living housemaids + +Singular inability to weigh the value +of testimony + +Six persons engaged in every dialogue +between two + +Slow to accept marvellous stories and +many forms of superstition + +Small potatoes always get to the +bottom. + +Smiling at present follies + +So long as a woman can talk, there is +nothing she cannot bear + +So much woman in it,—muliebrity, as +well as femineity + +So much must be pardoned to humanity + +Society is a strong solution of books + +Society of Mutual Admiration + +Sold his sensibilities + +Some people that think everything +pitiable is so funny + +Some people think that truth and gold +are always to be washed for + +Somebody had been calling him an old +man + +Something she is ashamed of, or ought +to be + +Something better than flowers; it is a +seed-capsule + +Somewhere,—somewhere,—love is in +store for them + +Stages of life + +Struggle with the ever-rising mists of +delusion + +Stupidity often saves a man from going +mad + +Style is the man + +Sudden conviction that I had seen it +somewhere + +Takes very little to spoil everything +for writer, talker, lover + +Talk about those subjects you have had +long in your mind + +Talk, to me, is only spading up the +ground for crops of thought + +Talk without words is half their +conversation + +Talkers who have what may be called +jerky minds + +Talking with a dull friend affords +great relief + +Talking is like playing on the harp + +Talking is one of the fine arts + +Talking shapes our thoughts for us + +Tears that we weep inwardly with +unchanging features + +Temptation of money and fame is too +great for young people + +Tepid and unstimulating expression of +enthusiasm + +Terrible smile + +Thanklessness of critical honesty + +That great procession of the UNLOVED + +The house is quite as much the body we +live in + +The schoolmistress had tried life, too + +The Amen! of Nature is always a flower + +The race that shortens its weapons +lengthens its boundaries + +The year eighteen hundred and ever-so-few + +The way to argue down a vice is not to +tell lies about it + +Their business is not a matter of +sympathy, but of intellect + +There is no elasticity in a +mathematical fact + +There is a higher law in grammar, not +to be put down + +There is almost always at least one key +to this side-door + +Think only in single file front this +day forward + +Think of the griefs that die unspoken! + +Third vowel as its center + +This is the shortest way,—she said + +This is one of those cases in which the +style is the man + +Those who ask your opinion really want +your praise + +Time is a fact + +To trifle with the vocabulary + +To pay up, to own up, and to shut up, +if beaten + +Too late!—— "It might have been."—— +Amen! + +Travellers change their guineas, but +not their characters + +Triumph of the ciphering hand-organ + +True state of creative genius is allied +to reverie, or dreaming + +Truth must roll, or nobody can do +anything with it + +Truth is only safe when diluted + +Truth's sharp corners get terribly +rounded + +Truths a man carries about with him are +his tools + +Turn over any old falsehood + +Unadorned and in plain calico + +Undertakers + +Unpacks and unfolds incidental +illustrations + +Unpretending mediocrity is good + +Virtually old when it first makes its +appearance + +Virtue passed through the hem of their +parchment + +Virtues of a sporting man + +Vulgarism of language + +Wait awhile! + +Walls of that larger Inquisition which +we call Civilization + +Want of ideas, want of words, want of +manners + +We die out of houses, just as we die +out of our bodies + +We always compare ourselves with our +contemporaries. + +We are all theological students + +We carry happiness into our condition + +We don't read what we don't like + +We never tell our secrets to people +that pump for them. + +Wedded, faded away, threw themselves +away + +Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key +to this side-door + +Weeded their circle pretty well of +these unfortunates + +What a satire, by the way, is that +machine + +What are the great faults of +conversation? + +Whether anything can be conscious of +its own flavor?? + +Whether gifted with the accident of +beauty or not + +While she is silent, Nature is working +for her + +Who is in advance of it or even with it + +Wholesale professional dealers in +misfortune + +Why authors and actors are ashamed of +being funny? + +Why did I not ask? you will say + +Will you take the long path with me? + +Winning-post a slab of white or gray +stone + +Wit knows that his place is at the tail +of a procession. + +Wonder how my great trees are coming on +this summer. + +World calls him hard names, probably + +World has a million roosts for a man, +but only one nest. + +Yes, I am a man, like another + +Young man knows the rules, but the old +man knows the exceptions + +Youth and age—something in the soul +</pre> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select + a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory—then click + one of the eBooks just below and paste the phrase into your computer's + find or search operation. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <span style="font-size: 16pt"><strong><a + href="https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/3252/3252.txt">Entire Project + Gutenberg Holmes' Edition in Plain Text</a></strong></span> (5.40 + mb) <br /> <br /> Or:<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16pt"><strong><a + href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28747/28747-h/28747-h.htm">Entire + Project Gutenberg Holmes' Edition in Illustrated HTML</a></strong></span> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + These quotations were collected from the works of Dr. Holmes by <a + href="mailto:cdwidger@gmail.com">David Widger</a> while preparing etexts + for Project Gutenberg. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + +Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #7545] +[Last updated on February 17, 2007] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FOR O. W. HOLMES *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM O. W. HOLMES, SR. + + + +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES + + + + +Editor's Note +This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name who was a +Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr. +Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine. +Though his world-wide fame was based on his prose and poetry, he was +an eminent leader in medicine. Many--too many years ago I would often +assign Holmes' "Medical Essays" to a medical student whose sharp edges +of science needed some rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no +longer the privilege of assigning anything to anybody, yet encourage any +of you, especially any who may be physicians, to read the thoughts of a +family doctor of the early 1800's. + + + + + +A misprint kills a sensitive author + +Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies + +Advised every literary man to have a +profession. + +Afraid of books who have not handled +them from infancy + +Age and neglect united gradually + +Agreed on certain ultimata of belief + +Algebraic symbols of minds which have +grown too weak + +All his geese are swans + +All men are bores, except when we want +them + +All men love all women + +All the forms of moral excellence, +except truth + +All want to reach old age and grumble +when they get it + +And now we two are walking the long +path in peace together + +Another privilege of talking is to +misquote + +Arc in the movement of a large +intellect + +As I understand truth + +As to clever people's hating each other + +As a child, he should have tumbled +about in a library + +Asked Solon what made him dare to be so +obstinate + +Assume a standard of judgment in our +own minds + +At the mercy of every superior mind + +Audacious self-esteem, with good ground +for it + +Automatic and involuntary actions of +the mind + +Babbage's calculating machine + +Be very careful to whom you trust one +of these keys + +Beautiful effects from wit,--all the +prismatic colors + +Been in the same precise circumstances +before + +Behave like men and gentlemen about it, +if you know how. + +Beliefs are rooted in human wants and +weakness, and die hard + +Bells which small trades-people connect +with their shop-doors + +Better for mankind,--and all the worse +for the fishes + +Better too few words, from the woman we +love + +Bewitching cup of self-quackery + +Bill which will render pockets a +superfluity in your next suit + +Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy + +Bowing and nodding over the music + +Brain often runs away with the heart's +best blood + +Brilliant flashes--of silence! + +Brute beasts of the intellectual domain + +Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, +hopes, and terrors + +But we must sail, and not drift, nor +lie at anchor. + +But it was in talking of Life that we +came most nearly together + +Called an old man for the first time + +Character is distinctly shown at the +age of four months. + +Cigar + +Clairvoyance which sees into things +without opening them + +Code of finalities is a necessary +condition of profitable talk + +Cold shower-bath the world furnishes +gratis + +Comfort is essential to enjoyment + +Commerce is just putting his granite +foot upon them + +Common sense, as you understand it. + +Common sense was good enough for him + +Compare the racer with the trotter + +Conceit is just a natural thing to +human minds + +Conceit has the virtue of making them +cheerful + +Conclusion that he or she is really +dull + +Conflicting advice of all manner of +officious friends + +Consciousness of carrying a "settler" +in the form of a fact + +Controversy + +Conversation which is suggestive rather +than argumentative + +Conversational fungi spring up most +luxuriantly + +Conversational bully + +Conversational blank checks or counters + +Conversational soprano + +Creative action is not voluntary at all + +Crippled souls + +Crow with a king-bird after him + +Cut your climate to your constitution + +Dangerous subjects + +Demand for intellectual labor is so +enormous + +Did I believe in love at first sight? + +Didn't know Truth was such an invalid + +Differ on the fundamental principles + +Dishwater from the washings of English +dandyism + +Disputing about remainders and +fractions + +Do wish she would get well--or +something + +Do you know how important good +jockeying is to authors? + +Do you ever wonder why poets talk so +much about flowers? + +Do not be bullied out of your common +sense by the specialist + +Don't make your moral staple consist of +the negative virtues + +Don't believe any man ever talked like +that in this world + +Don't begin to pry till you have got +the long arm on your side + +Don't ever think the poetry is dead in +an old man + +Don't be in a hurry to choose your +friends + +Doomed to the pangs of an undeceived +self-estimate + +Dullest of teachers is the one who does +not know what to omit + +Dulness is not commonly a game fish + +Earned your money by the dose you have +taken + +Easier to dispute it than to disprove +it + +Easier to say this than to prove it + +Educational factory + +Elysian abandonment of a huge recumbent +chair. + +Every person's feelings have a +front-door and a side-door + +Extra talent does sometimes make people +jealous + +Facts always yield the place of honor, +in conversation + +Fall silent and think they are thinking + +Few, if any, were ruined by drinking + +Flash terms for words which truly +characterize their objects. + +Fortune is the measure of intelligence + +Fortune had left her, sorrow had +baptized her + +Friendship authorizes you to say +disagreeable things + +Gambling with dice or stocks + +Gambling, on the great scale, is not +republican + +Generalize the disease and +individualize the patient + +Generally ruined before they became +drunkards + +Genius in an essentially common person +is detestable + +Gift of seeing themselves in the true +light + +Give it an intellectual shake and hold +it up to the light + +Give us the luxuries of life + +Good for nothing until they have been +long kept and used + +Good feeling helps society to make +liars of most of us + +Good Americans, when they die, go to +Paris + +Got his hand up, as a pointer lifts his +forefoot + +Governed, not by, but according to laws + +Grave without a stone where nothing but +a man is buried + +Great silent-moving misery puts a new +stamp on us + +Grow we must, if we outgrow all that we +love + +Grow old early, if you would be old +long + +Habit is a labor-saving invention + +Habits are the crutches of old age + +Half knowledge dreads nothing but whole +knowledge + +Half-censure divided between the +parties + +Hard it is for some people to get out +of a room + +He did not know so much about old age +then as he does now + +He that has once done you a kindness + +He who is carried by horses must deal +with rogues + +Height of art to conceal art + +Her breathing was somewhat hurried and +high, or thoracic + +Here lies buried the soul of the +licentiate Pedro Garcias + +Hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer + +Hold their outspread hands over your +head + +Holes in all her pockets + +Hoped he did deserve a little abuse +occasionally + +Hopelessly dull discourse acts +inductively + +How long will school-keeping take to +kill you? + +Hung with moss, looking like bearded +Druids + +Hydrostatic paradox of controversy + +I always believed in life rather than +in books + +I always break down when folks cry in +my face + +I allow no "facts" at this table + +I show my thought, another his + +I tell my secrets too easily when I am +downhearted. + +I love horses + +I think I have not been attacked enough +for it + +I never think I have hit hard unless it +rebounds + +I replied with my usual forbearance + +I am my own son, as it seems to me + +I had not thought love was ever meant +for me. + +I hate books + +I have lived by the sea-shore and by +the mountains + +I have taken all knowledge to be my +province + +If so and so, we should have been this +or that + +If they have run as well as they knew +how! + +If I thought I should ever see the +Alps! + +Il faut ne pas BRUTALISER la machine + +In what direction we are moving + +Incipit Allegoria Senectutis. + +Infinite ocean of similitudes and +analogies + +Insanity is often the logic of an +accurate mind overtasked + +Insanity + +Intellectual companions can be found +easily + +Is this the mighty ocean?--is this all? + +It is by little things that we know +ourselves + +It is pleasant to be foolish at the +right time + +Judge men's minds by comparing with +mine + +Keep his wit in the background + +Key to this side-door + +Knowledge and timber only useful when +seasoned + +La main de fer sous le gant de velours + +Laid the egg of the Reformation which +Luther hatched + +Laughs at times at the grand airs +"Science" puts on + +Law of the road with regard to handsome +faces + +Leading a string of my mind's daughters +to market + +Leap at a single bound into celebrity + +Learn anything twice as easily as in my +earlier days + +Leave your friend to learn unpleasant +truths from his enemies + +Lecturer is public property + +Let us cry! + +Liability of all men to be elected to +public office + +Life would be nothing without +paper-credit + +Life is maintained by the respiration +of oxygen and of sentiment + +Like taking the cat in your lap after +holding a squirrel + +Listen to what others say about +subjects you have studied + +Little great man + +Little muscle which knows its +importance + +Little narrow streaks of specialized +knowledge + +Live on the reputation of the +reputation they might have made + +Living in a narrow world of dry habits + +Logic + +Logicians carry the surveyor's chain +over the track + +Long illness is the real vampyrism + +Look through the silvered rings of the +arcus senilis! + +Love must be either rich or rosy + +Love is sparingly soluble in the words +of men + +Love-capacity is a congenital endowment + +Lying is unprofitable + +Made up your mind to do when you ask +them for advice + +Man of family + +Man who means to be honest for a +literary pickpocket + +Man is father to the boy that was + +Man's and a woman's dusting a library + +Man's first life-story shall clean him +out, so to speak + +Mathematical fact + +May doubt everything to-day if I will +only do it civilly + +Meaningless blushing + +Mechanical invention had exhausted +itself + +Memory is a net + +Men that know everything except how to +make a living + +Men grow sweet a little while before +they begin to decay + +Men of facts wait their turn in grim +silence + +Men who have found new occupations when +growing old + +Men that it weakens one to talk with an +hour + +Men are fools, cowards, and liars all +at once + +Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less +money! + +Moralist and occasional sermonizer + +Most of our common, working beliefs are +probabilities + +Moved as if all her articulations were +elbow-joints + +Much ashamed of some people for +retaining their reason + +Must not read such a string of verses +too literally + +Must sail sometimes with the wind and +sometimes against it + +Must be weaned from his late suppers +now + +Napoleon's test + +Nature dresses and undresses them + +Nature, who always has her pockets full +of seeds + +Nearest approach to flying that man has +ever made + +Neither make too much of flaws or +overstatements + +Never forget where they have put their +money + +No families take so little medicine as +those of doctors + +No fresh truth ever gets into a book + +No man knows his own voice + +Nobody is so old he doesn't think he +can live a year + +None of my business to inquire what +other persons think + +Nutritious diet of active sympathetic +benevolence + +Oblivion as residuary legatee + +Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library + +Odious trick of speech or manners must +be got rid of. + +Oh, so patient she is, this +imperturbable Nature! + +Old Age + +Old age appear as a series of personal +insults and indignities + +Old jokes are dynamometers of mental +tension + +One very sad thing in old friendships + +One whose patients are willing to die +in his hands + +One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet +one hates to lie + +One that goes in a nurse may come out +an angel + +One can generally tell these wholesale +thieves easily enough + +Open patches where the sun gets in and +goes to sleep + +Oracle + +Original, though you have uttered it a +hundred times + +Ought to produce insanity in every +well-regulated mind + +Our brains are seventy-year clocks + +Overrate their own flesh and blood + +Painted there by reflection from our +faces + +Passion never laughs + +People in the green stage of millionism + +People that make puns are like wanton +boys + +Person is really full of information, +and does not abuse it + +Personal incidents that call up single +sharp pictures + +Physical necessity to talk out what is +in the mind + +Picket-guard at the extreme outpost + +Plagiarism + +Pluck survives stamina + +Poem must be kept and used, like a +meerschaum, or a violin + +Poetry, instead of making one other +heart happy + +Poetry of words is quite as beautiful +as that of sentences + +Poor creature that does not often +repeat himself + +Poverty is evidence of limited capacity + +Power of human beings is a very +strictly limited agency + +Power of music + +Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance + +Pride, in the sense of contemning +others + +Probabilities + +Project a principle full in the face of +obvious fact! + +Provincial conceit, which some of us +must plead guilty to. + +Pseudo-science + +Pseudological inanity + +Public itself, which insists on being +poisoned + +Pun is prima facie an insult + +Put coppers on the railroad-tracks + +Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he +done? + +Quackery and idolatry are all but +immortal + +Question everything + +Racing horses are essentially gambling +implements + +Rapidity with which ideas grow old in +our memories + +Rather meet three of the scowlers than +one of the smilers. + +Rather longer than usual dressing that +morning + +Regained my freedom with a sigh + +Religious mental disturbances + +Remarkably intelligent audience + +Remarks like so many postage-stamps + +Returning thanks after a dinner of many +courses + +Ribbon which has strangled so many +false pretensions + +Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow + +Saddle-leather is in some respects even +preferable + +Saint may be a sinner that never got +down to "hard pan" + +Saturation-point of each mind differs +from that of every other + +Saying one thing about it and believing +another + +Scientific certainty has no spring in +it + +Scientific knowledge + +Second story projecting + +See if the ripe fruit were better or +worse + +Self-assertion, such as free suffrage +introduces + +Self-love is a cup without any bottom + +Self-made men? + +Self-unconsciousness of genius + +Sense of SMELL + +Sentenced to capital punishment for the +crime of living + +"Sentimentality," which is sentiment +overdone + +"Settler" in the form of a fact or a +revolver + +Several false premises + +Shake the same bough again + +She who nips off the end of a brittle +courtesy + +She always laughs and cries in the +right places + +Shut out, not all light, but all the +light they do not want + +Shy of asking questions of those who +know enough to destroy + +SIN has many tools, but a lie is the +handle which fits them all + +Single combats between dead authors and +living housemaids + +Singular inability to weigh the value +of testimony + +Six persons engaged in every dialogue +between two + +Slow to accept marvellous stories and +many forms of superstition + +Small potatoes always get to the +bottom. + +Smiling at present follies + +So long as a woman can talk, there is +nothing she cannot bear + +So much woman in it,--muliebrity, as +well as femineity + +So much must be pardoned to humanity + +Society is a strong solution of books + +Society of Mutual Admiration + +Sold his sensibilities + +Some people that think everything +pitiable is so funny + +Some people think that truth and gold +are always to be washed for + +Somebody had been calling him an old +man + +Something she is ashamed of, or ought +to be + +Something better than flowers; it is a +seed-capsule + +Somewhere,--somewhere,--love is in +store for them + +Stages of life + +Struggle with the ever-rising mists of +delusion + +Stupidity often saves a man from going +mad + +Style is the man + +Sudden conviction that I had seen it +somewhere + +Takes very little to spoil everything +for writer, talker, lover + +Talk about those subjects you have had +long in your mind + +Talk, to me, is only spading up the +ground for crops of thought + +Talk without words is half their +conversation + +Talkers who have what may be called +jerky minds + +Talking with a dull friend affords +great relief + +Talking is like playing on the harp + +Talking is one of the fine arts + +Talking shapes our thoughts for us + +Tears that we weep inwardly with +unchanging features + +Temptation of money and fame is too +great for young people + +Tepid and unstimulating expression of +enthusiasm + +Terrible smile + +Thanklessness of critical honesty + +That great procession of the UNLOVED + +The house is quite as much the body we +live in + +The schoolmistress had tried life, too + +The Amen! of Nature is always a flower + +The race that shortens its weapons +lengthens its boundaries + +The year eighteen hundred and ever-so-few + +The way to argue down a vice is not to +tell lies about it + +Their business is not a matter of +sympathy, but of intellect + +There is no elasticity in a +mathematical fact + +There is a higher law in grammar, not +to be put down + +There is almost always at least one key +to this side-door + +Think only in single file front this +day forward + +Think of the griefs that die unspoken! + +Third vowel as its center + +This is the shortest way,--she said + +This is one of those cases in which the +style is the man + +Those who ask your opinion really want +your praise + +Time is a fact + +To trifle with the vocabulary + +To pay up, to own up, and to shut up, +if beaten + +Too late!---- "It might have been."---- +Amen! + +Travellers change their guineas, but +not their characters + +Triumph of the ciphering hand-organ + +True state of creative genius is allied +to reverie, or dreaming + +Truth must roll, or nobody can do +anything with it + +Truth is only safe when diluted + +Truth's sharp corners get terribly +rounded + +Truths a man carries about with him are +his tools + +Turn over any old falsehood + +Unadorned and in plain calico + +Undertakers + +Unpacks and unfolds incidental +illustrations + +Unpretending mediocrity is good + +Virtually old when it first makes its +appearance + +Virtue passed through the hem of their +parchment + +Virtues of a sporting man + +Vulgarism of language + +Wait awhile! + +Walls of that larger Inquisition which +we call Civilization + +Want of ideas, want of words, want of +manners + +We die out of houses, just as we die +out of our bodies + +We always compare ourselves with our +contemporaries. + +We are all theological students + +We carry happiness into our condition + +We don't read what we don't like + +We never tell our secrets to people +that pump for them. + +Wedded, faded away, threw themselves +away + +Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key +to this side-door + +Weeded their circle pretty well of +these unfortunates + +What a satire, by the way, is that +machine + +What are the great faults of +conversation? + +Whether anything can be conscious of +its own flavor?? + +Whether gifted with the accident of +beauty or not + +While she is silent, Nature is working +for her + +Who is in advance of it or even with it + +Wholesale professional dealers in +misfortune + +Why authors and actors are ashamed of +being funny? + +Why did I not ask? you will say + +Will you take the long path with me? + +Winning-post a slab of white or gray +stone + +Wit knows that his place is at the tail +of a procession. + +Wonder how my great trees are coming on +this summer. + +World calls him hard names, probably + +World has a million roosts for a man, +but only one nest. + +Yes, I am a man, like another + +Young man knows the rules, but the old +man knows the exceptions + +Youth and age--something in the soul + + +If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, +select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then +click on the url for the plain text eBook just below and paste the +phrase into your computer's find or search operation. + +Entire Project Gutenberg Holmes' Edition (5.40 mb) +http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/ohent12.txt + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell +Holmes, Sr., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FOR O. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net + + +Title: Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + +Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. + Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #7545] +[Last updated on February 17, 2007] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FOR O. W. HOLMES *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + + + +<center> +<h1>OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES</h1> +</center> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<h3>Editor's Note</h3> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p>This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name +who was a Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very +early on Dr. Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy +of medicine. Though his world-wide fame was based on his prose +and poetry, he was an eminent leader in medicine. Many—too +many years ago I would often assign Holmes' "Medical Essays" to +a medical student whose sharp edges of science needed some +rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no longer the privilege of assigning +anything to anybody, yet encourage any of you, especially any who +may be physicians, to read the thoughts of a family doctor of the +early 1800's.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<center><img alt="holmes65.jpg (27K)" src="images/holmes65.jpg" height="1030" width="650"> +</center> + +<table summary=""> +<tr> +<td><img alt="holmes40.jpg (21K)" src="images/holmes40.jpg" height="547" +width="399"> <br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + <br> +<br> +<br> +<br> 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library + +Asked Solon what made him dare to be so +obstinate + +Assume a standard of judgment in our +own minds + +At the mercy of every superior mind + +Audacious self-esteem, with good ground +for it + +Automatic and involuntary actions of +the mind + +Babbage's calculating machine + +Be very careful to whom you trust one +of these keys + +Beautiful effects from wit,—all the +prismatic colors + +Been in the same precise circumstances +before + +Behave like men and gentlemen about it, +if you know how. + +Beliefs are rooted in human wants and +weakness, and die hard + +Bells which small trades-people connect +with their shop-doors + +Better for mankind,—and all the worse +for the fishes + +Better too few words, from the woman we +love + +Bewitching cup of self-quackery + +Bill which will render pockets a +superfluity in your next suit + +Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy + +Bowing and nodding over the music + +Brain often runs away with the heart's +best blood + +Brilliant flashes—of silence! + +Brute beasts of the intellectual domain + +Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, +hopes, and terrors + +But we must sail, and not drift, nor +lie at anchor. + +But it was in talking of Life that we +came most nearly together + +Called an old man for the first time + +Character is distinctly shown at the +age of four months. + +Cigar + +Clairvoyance which sees into things +without opening them + +Code of finalities is a necessary +condition of profitable talk + +Cold shower-bath the world furnishes +gratis + +Comfort is essential to enjoyment + +Commerce is just putting his granite +foot upon them + +Common sense, as you understand it. + +Common sense was good enough for him + +Compare the racer with the trotter + +Conceit is just a natural thing to +human minds + +Conceit has the virtue of making them +cheerful + +Conclusion that he or she is really +dull + +Conflicting advice of all manner of +officious friends + +Consciousness of carrying a "settler" +in the form of a fact + +Controversy + +Conversation which is suggestive rather +than argumentative + +Conversational fungi spring up most +luxuriantly + +Conversational bully + +Conversational blank checks or counters + +Conversational soprano + +Creative action is not voluntary at all + +Crippled souls + +Crow with a king-bird after him + +Cut your climate to your constitution + +Dangerous subjects + +Demand for intellectual labor is so +enormous + +Did I believe in love at first sight? + +Didn't know Truth was such an invalid + +Differ on the fundamental principles + +Dishwater from the washings of English +dandyism + +Disputing about remainders and +fractions + +Do wish she would get well—or +something + +Do you know how important good +jockeying is to authors? + +Do you ever wonder why poets talk so +much about flowers? + +Do not be bullied out of your common +sense by the specialist + +Don't make your moral staple consist of +the negative virtues + +Don't believe any man ever talked like +that in this world + +Don't begin to pry till you have got +the long arm on your side + +Don't ever think the poetry is dead in +an old man + +Don't be in a hurry to choose your +friends + +Doomed to the pangs of an undeceived +self-estimate + +Dullest of teachers is the one who does +not know what to omit + +Dulness is not commonly a game fish + +Earned your money by the dose you have +taken + +Easier to dispute it than to disprove +it + +Easier to say this than to prove it + +Educational factory + +Elysian abandonment of a huge recumbent +chair. + +Every person's feelings have a +front-door and a side-door + +Extra talent does sometimes make people +jealous + +Facts always yield the place of honor, +in conversation + +Fall silent and think they are thinking + +Few, if any, were ruined by drinking + +Flash terms for words which truly +characterize their objects. + +Fortune is the measure of intelligence + +Fortune had left her, sorrow had +baptized her + +Friendship authorizes you to say +disagreeable things + +Gambling with dice or stocks + +Gambling, on the great scale, is not +republican + +Generalize the disease and +individualize the patient + +Generally ruined before they became +drunkards + +Genius in an essentially common person +is detestable + +Gift of seeing themselves in the true +light + +Give it an intellectual shake and hold +it up to the light + +Give us the luxuries of life + +Good for nothing until they have been +long kept and used + +Good feeling helps society to make +liars of most of us + +Good Americans, when they die, go to +Paris + +Got his hand up, as a pointer lifts his +forefoot + +Governed, not by, but according to laws + +Grave without a stone where nothing but +a man is buried + +Great silent-moving misery puts a new +stamp on us + +Grow we must, if we outgrow all that we +love + +Grow old early, if you would be old +long + +Habit is a labor-saving invention + +Habits are the crutches of old age + +Half knowledge dreads nothing but whole +knowledge + +Half-censure divided between the +parties + +Hard it is for some people to get out +of a room + +He did not know so much about old age +then as he does now + +He that has once done you a kindness + +He who is carried by horses must deal +with rogues + +Height of art to conceal art + +Her breathing was somewhat hurried and +high, or thoracic + +Here lies buried the soul of the +licentiate Pedro Garcias + +Hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer + +Hold their outspread hands over your +head + +Holes in all her pockets + +Hoped he did deserve a little abuse +occasionally + +Hopelessly dull discourse acts +inductively + +How long will school-keeping take to +kill you? + +Hung with moss, looking like bearded +Druids + +Hydrostatic paradox of controversy + +I always believed in life rather than +in books + +I always break down when folks cry in +my face + +I allow no "facts" at this table + +I show my thought, another his + +I tell my secrets too easily when I am +downhearted. + +I love horses + +I think I have not been attacked enough +for it + +I never think I have hit hard unless it +rebounds + +I replied with my usual forbearance + +I am my own son, as it seems to me + +I had not thought love was ever meant +for me. + +I hate books + +I have lived by the sea-shore and by +the mountains + +I have taken all knowledge to be my +province + +If so and so, we should have been this +or that + +If they have run as well as they knew +how! + +If I thought I should ever see the +Alps! + +Il faut ne pas BRUTALISER la machine + +In what direction we are moving + +Incipit Allegoria Senectutis. + +Infinite ocean of similitudes and +analogies + +Insanity is often the logic of an +accurate mind overtasked + +Insanity + +Intellectual companions can be found +easily + +Is this the mighty ocean?—is this all? + +It is by little things that we know +ourselves + +It is pleasant to be foolish at the +right time + +Judge men's minds by comparing with +mine + +Keep his wit in the background + +Key to this side-door + +Knowledge and timber only useful when +seasoned + +La main de fer sous le gant de velours + +Laid the egg of the Reformation which +Luther hatched + +Laughs at times at the grand airs +"Science" puts on + +Law of the road with regard to handsome +faces + +Leading a string of my mind's daughters +to market + +Leap at a single bound into celebrity + +Learn anything twice as easily as in my +earlier days + +Leave your friend to learn unpleasant +truths from his enemies + +Lecturer is public property + +Let us cry! + +Liability of all men to be elected to +public office + +Life would be nothing without +paper-credit + +Life is maintained by the respiration +of oxygen and of sentiment + +Like taking the cat in your lap after +holding a squirrel + +Listen to what others say about +subjects you have studied + +Little great man + +Little muscle which knows its +importance + +Little narrow streaks of specialized +knowledge + +Live on the reputation of the +reputation they might have made + +Living in a narrow world of dry habits + +Logic + +Logicians carry the surveyor's chain +over the track + +Long illness is the real vampyrism + +Look through the silvered rings of the +arcus senilis! + +Love must be either rich or rosy + +Love is sparingly soluble in the words +of men + +Love-capacity is a congenital endowment + +Lying is unprofitable + +Made up your mind to do when you ask +them for advice + +Man of family + +Man who means to be honest for a +literary pickpocket + +Man is father to the boy that was + +Man's and a woman's dusting a library + +Man's first life-story shall clean him +out, so to speak + +Mathematical fact + +May doubt everything to-day if I will +only do it civilly + +Meaningless blushing + +Mechanical invention had exhausted +itself + +Memory is a net + +Men that know everything except how to +make a living + +Men grow sweet a little while before +they begin to decay + +Men of facts wait their turn in grim +silence + +Men who have found new occupations when +growing old + +Men that it weakens one to talk with an +hour + +Men are fools, cowards, and liars all +at once + +Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less +money! + +Moralist and occasional sermonizer + +Most of our common, working beliefs are +probabilities + +Moved as if all her articulations were +elbow-joints + +Much ashamed of some people for +retaining their reason + +Must not read such a string of verses +too literally + +Must sail sometimes with the wind and +sometimes against it + +Must be weaned from his late suppers +now + +Napoleon's test + +Nature dresses and undresses them + +Nature, who always has her pockets full +of seeds + +Nearest approach to flying that man has +ever made + +Neither make too much of flaws or +overstatements + +Never forget where they have put their +money + +No families take so little medicine as +those of doctors + +No fresh truth ever gets into a book + +No man knows his own voice + +Nobody is so old he doesn't think he +can live a year + +None of my business to inquire what +other persons think + +Nutritious diet of active sympathetic +benevolence + +Oblivion as residuary legatee + +Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library + +Odious trick of speech or manners must +be got rid of. + +Oh, so patient she is, this +imperturbable Nature! + +Old Age + +Old age appear as a series of personal +insults and indignities + +Old jokes are dynamometers of mental +tension + +One very sad thing in old friendships + +One whose patients are willing to die +in his hands + +One doesn't like to be cruel,—and yet +one hates to lie + +One that goes in a nurse may come out +an angel + +One can generally tell these wholesale +thieves easily enough + +Open patches where the sun gets in and +goes to sleep + +Oracle + +Original, though you have uttered it a +hundred times + +Ought to produce insanity in every +well-regulated mind + +Our brains are seventy-year clocks + +Overrate their own flesh and blood + +Painted there by reflection from our +faces + +Passion never laughs + +People in the green stage of millionism + +People that make puns are like wanton +boys + +Person is really full of information, +and does not abuse it + +Personal incidents that call up single +sharp pictures + +Physical necessity to talk out what is +in the mind + +Picket-guard at the extreme outpost + +Plagiarism + +Pluck survives stamina + +Poem must be kept and used, like a +meerschaum, or a violin + +Poetry, instead of making one other +heart happy + +Poetry of words is quite as beautiful +as that of sentences + +Poor creature that does not often +repeat himself + +Poverty is evidence of limited capacity + +Power of human beings is a very +strictly limited agency + +Power of music + +Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance + +Pride, in the sense of contemning +others + +Probabilities + +Project a principle full in the face of +obvious fact! + +Provincial conceit, which some of us +must plead guilty to. + +Pseudo-science + +Pseudological inanity + +Public itself, which insists on being +poisoned + +Pun is prima facie an insult + +Put coppers on the railroad-tracks + +Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he +done? + +Quackery and idolatry are all but +immortal + +Question everything + +Racing horses are essentially gambling +implements + +Rapidity with which ideas grow old in +our memories + +Rather meet three of the scowlers than +one of the smilers. + +Rather longer than usual dressing that +morning + +Regained my freedom with a sigh + +Religious mental disturbances + +Remarkably intelligent audience + +Remarks like so many postage-stamps + +Returning thanks after a dinner of many +courses + +Ribbon which has strangled so many +false pretensions + +Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow + +Saddle-leather is in some respects even +preferable + +Saint may be a sinner that never got +down to "hard pan" + +Saturation-point of each mind differs +from that of every other + +Saying one thing about it and believing +another + +Scientific certainty has no spring in +it + +Scientific knowledge + +Second story projecting + +See if the ripe fruit were better or +worse + +Self-assertion, such as free suffrage +introduces + +Self-love is a cup without any bottom + +Self-made men? + +Self-unconsciousness of genius + +Sense of SMELL + +Sentenced to capital punishment for the +crime of living + +"Sentimentality," which is sentiment +overdone + +"Settler" in the form of a fact or a +revolver + +Several false premises + +Shake the same bough again + +She who nips off the end of a brittle +courtesy + +She always laughs and cries in the +right places + +Shut out, not all light, but all the +light they do not want + +Shy of asking questions of those who +know enough to destroy + +SIN has many tools, but a lie is the +handle which fits them all + +Single combats between dead authors and +living housemaids + +Singular inability to weigh the value +of testimony + +Six persons engaged in every dialogue +between two + +Slow to accept marvellous stories and +many forms of superstition + +Small potatoes always get to the +bottom. + +Smiling at present follies + +So long as a woman can talk, there is +nothing she cannot bear + +So much woman in it,—muliebrity, as +well as femineity + +So much must be pardoned to humanity + +Society is a strong solution of books + +Society of Mutual Admiration + +Sold his sensibilities + +Some people that think everything +pitiable is so funny + +Some people think that truth and gold +are always to be washed for + +Somebody had been calling him an old +man + +Something she is ashamed of, or ought +to be + +Something better than flowers; it is a +seed-capsule + +Somewhere,—somewhere,—love is in +store for them + +Stages of life + +Struggle with the ever-rising mists of +delusion + +Stupidity often saves a man from going +mad + +Style is the man + +Sudden conviction that I had seen it +somewhere + +Takes very little to spoil everything +for writer, talker, lover + +Talk about those subjects you have had +long in your mind + +Talk, to me, is only spading up the +ground for crops of thought + +Talk without words is half their +conversation + +Talkers who have what may be called +jerky minds + +Talking with a dull friend affords +great relief + +Talking is like playing on the harp + +Talking is one of the fine arts + +Talking shapes our thoughts for us + +Tears that we weep inwardly with +unchanging features + +Temptation of money and fame is too +great for young people + +Tepid and unstimulating expression of +enthusiasm + +Terrible smile + +Thanklessness of critical honesty + +That great procession of the UNLOVED + +The house is quite as much the body we +live in + +The schoolmistress had tried life, too + +The Amen! of Nature is always a flower + +The race that shortens its weapons +lengthens its boundaries + +The year eighteen hundred and ever-so-few + +The way to argue down a vice is not to +tell lies about it + +Their business is not a matter of +sympathy, but of intellect + +There is no elasticity in a +mathematical fact + +There is a higher law in grammar, not +to be put down + +There is almost always at least one key +to this side-door + +Think only in single file front this +day forward + +Think of the griefs that die unspoken! + +Third vowel as its center + +This is the shortest way,—she said + +This is one of those cases in which the +style is the man + +Those who ask your opinion really want +your praise + +Time is a fact + +To trifle with the vocabulary + +To pay up, to own up, and to shut up, +if beaten + +Too late!—— "It might have been."—— +Amen! + +Travellers change their guineas, but +not their characters + +Triumph of the ciphering hand-organ + +True state of creative genius is allied +to reverie, or dreaming + +Truth must roll, or nobody can do +anything with it + +Truth is only safe when diluted + +Truth's sharp corners get terribly +rounded + +Truths a man carries about with him are +his tools + +Turn over any old falsehood + +Unadorned and in plain calico + +Undertakers + +Unpacks and unfolds incidental +illustrations + +Unpretending mediocrity is good + +Virtually old when it first makes its +appearance + +Virtue passed through the hem of their +parchment + +Virtues of a sporting man + +Vulgarism of language + +Wait awhile! + +Walls of that larger Inquisition which +we call Civilization + +Want of ideas, want of words, want of +manners + +We die out of houses, just as we die +out of our bodies + +We always compare ourselves with our +contemporaries. + +We are all theological students + +We carry happiness into our condition + +We don't read what we don't like + +We never tell our secrets to people +that pump for them. + +Wedded, faded away, threw themselves +away + +Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key +to this side-door + +Weeded their circle pretty well of +these unfortunates + +What a satire, by the way, is that +machine + +What are the great faults of +conversation? + +Whether anything can be conscious of +its own flavor?? + +Whether gifted with the accident of +beauty or not + +While she is silent, Nature is working +for her + +Who is in advance of it or even with it + +Wholesale professional dealers in +misfortune + +Why authors and actors are ashamed of +being funny? + +Why did I not ask? you will say + +Will you take the long path with me? + +Winning-post a slab of white or gray +stone + +Wit knows that his place is at the tail +of a procession. + +Wonder how my great trees are coming on +this summer. + +World calls him hard names, probably + +World has a million roosts for a man, +but only one nest. + +Yes, I am a man, like another + +Young man knows the rules, but the old +man knows the exceptions + +Youth and age—something in the soul +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<br> +<br> +<p>If you wish to read the entire context of any of these +quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your +clipboard memory—then click on the url for the plain text eBook just below and paste the +phrase into your computer's find or search operation.</p> + +<br> +<center> +<span style="font-size: 16pt"><strong><a href= +"http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/3252/3252.txt"> +Entire Project Gutenberg Holmes' Edition</a></strong></span> (5.40 mb) +</center> + +<br> +<br> +<blockquote> +<blockquote> +<blockquote> +<p>These quotations were collected from the works of Dr. Holmes +by <a href="mailto:widger@cecomet.net">David Widger</a> while +preparing etexts for Project Gutenberg. 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