Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Leverage is everything-don’t begin to pry until you’ve got the long arm on your side. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
