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«Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
bullied, Bullies, bullying, pedant, pedants, specialist, specialists, The Specialist
«Age, like distance, lends a double charm.»
«Apology is only egotism wrong side out.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
apology, egotism, Side Out, wrong-side-out
«With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts»
«The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
exceptions, his rule, knows, old, old man, rules, rule by, rule out, The Exceptions, The old man, The Rules, The Young Man, young, young man
«To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man»
«Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Amid, awful, bid, brothers, daring, Death of, destinies, in chorus, Lent, note, once more, orchestra, Orchestras, the Chorus, The Passion, trumpeting, trumpets, unseen
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
arm, bent, controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, height, hold water, hydrostatic, one-armed, paradox, pipe, The Tube, tube, tubes, Wise Men
«The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
accurately, apologies, apology, phrase
«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»
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