#or

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#often #original #though #thought #times

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#consistent #contradict #honestly #mean #more

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

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cincinnati #comfort #maker #rough #sounds

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

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should

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