Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles read more

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would read more

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task read more

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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

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