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• Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Old Ironside...
• Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- A Good Time going...
• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses!
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Voicele...
• Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holme
• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes ['The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table',1858]...