Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say 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 you had better be on speaking terms with it. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |