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.

With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.

With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the read more

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.