“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“And when you stick on conversation’s burrs, don’t strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conceit
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“Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Man has will, but woman has her way.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vision
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“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Trust
