#ay

Love prefers twilight to daylight. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#love #prefers #twilight

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#everybody #give #list #nobody #says

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #day #forgets #her #man

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

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#only #rough #rough work #truth #way

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#always #damn #damned #generally #his

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #institutions #just #like #may

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage