Oliver Wendell Quotes
53 Oliver Wendell quotes:
"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds."
Comfort Quotes
Dullness Quotes
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"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite"
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"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
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"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance."
Women Quotes
Elegance Quotes
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
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"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."
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"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."
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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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"With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air"
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"Don't be ""consistent"" but be simple true."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend"
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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
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"If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow"
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"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness."
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"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
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"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."
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