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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.»
«The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn»
«I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!»
«People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
consistent, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, honestly, rarely, tried and true
«The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.»
«Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
fame, something else
«We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
attacking, retreating, retreats
«Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered»
«If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.»
«Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.»
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