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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes