Oliver Wendell Holmes
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together…
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.
Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit…
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.
Religion is all bunk.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year…
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate…
What I just said is the fundamental, end-all, final, not-subject-to-opinion absolute truth, depending on where you're standing.
Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders…
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
A man's kiss is his signature.
Oh, man, what a day. It's no cakewalk being a single parent, juggling a career and family like so many juggling balls... two, I suppose.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of…
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it…
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don?t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope…
Great liars are also great magicians.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact…
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
A nickel isn't worth a dime today.
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there…
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Love is friendship set on fire.