#were

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue

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

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

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#certainty #certitude #cocksure #many #test

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

— Harold Edward Holt

#australians #due #gum #our #trees

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #material #poster #see #short

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#anyone #back #beach #bread #canvas

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. ↗

— Homer

#bad thing #concerned #even #much #sleep

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. ↗

— Peter Hook

#apprehension #being #case #each #end