#chi

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#air #bad #fresh #fresh air #good

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#answer #asking #attempting #cannot #existence

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#done #honest #honest truth #much #pretty

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cincinnati #comfort #maker #rough #sounds

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

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

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#coaching #eliminating #fired #get #mistakes

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent