Oliver Wendell Quotes
53 Oliver Wendell quotes:
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families."
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"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
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"Good Americans when they die, go to Paris."
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
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"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness."
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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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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
Excuse Quotes
Egotism Quotes
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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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"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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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant"
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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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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."
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"In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free."
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"Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom."
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"Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th"
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