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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes