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• 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...
• A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)...
• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Height of the Ridiculou...
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme