Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. perception simple people 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 Sr. hate men science A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. royal instinct nature We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. dawn twilight gone The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. politics race white The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. mothers-day family mom Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. aging youth age What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. would-be evil numbers Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. chicago cities sound Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. color brain heart [Science is] piecemeal revelation. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. revelations science
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