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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

«A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Words | Keywords: crystal, crystals, greatly, in color, In Living Color, skin color, the Crystal, The Skin, transparent, unchanged, vary
«The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Advertising | Keywords: publicity, shrink, threatened
«The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Men and Women | Keywords: bunch, cloth, cloths, feathers, flap, flapped, flapping, flaps, softly
«Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Insanity | Keywords: accurate, insanity
«Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Language
«Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: arc, arcs, circles, curve, determine, minded, move in, Small circle
«Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Society | Keywords: flat, grind, in some way
«Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Common sense, Science | Keywords: chamber, common ground, first rate, floor, furniture, ground floor, piece of furniture, piece of ground, upper, uppers
«Man has will, but woman has her way.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Speech | Keywords: charge, committee, fee, select, selects
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