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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
“America is the only place where man is full-grown!”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris
Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Source: The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Source: From Day to Day with Holmes
Source: The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions
Source: THE
“Man has his will, but woman has her way.”
Source: Poems 1
Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Source: The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.”
Source: The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes