#out

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#even #generally #important #important thing #in the end

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#egotism #only #out #side #wrong

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#common #common sense #out #pedant #sense

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#knocks #other #out #real #somebody

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#comes #else #fame #something #thinking

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#loves #must #outgrow #us

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