#r

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#nothing #remarkable #wish

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#against #am #deny #end #i

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#decides #faith #god #great #man

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#faith #god #greatest #man #understands

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#joy #law #me #rule #seem

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#discovered #early #early age #god #i

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either. ↗

— Tom Holt

#either #i #papers #read #sunday

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#australians #due #gum #our #trees