Quotes About Oliver Wendell Holmes

A doutrina homeopática viajou para a América onde, mais tarde, foi dissecada pelo doutor Oliver Wendell Holmes como "uma mistura confusa de engenhosidade perversa, falsa erudição, credulidade imbecil e hábil deturpação". Mesmo assim, seu criador morreu milionário, em Paris.

Oliver Wendell Holmes decía: "La mayor tragedia de América no es el gran desperdicio de recursos naturales, aunque esto ya es trágico. La mayor tragedia es el desperdicio de recursos humanos".

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Oliver Wendell Holmes's way of establishing parity is appealing: "Science gives us major answers to minor questions, while religion gives us minor answers to major questions.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.