#at

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#commonly #great #great men #men #nor

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#greatest #greatest thing #moving #much #thing

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#investigation #me #more #need #obscure

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#deal #great #great deal #lawyers #smoke

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#decides #faith #god #great #man