quotes from classic
/ page 240 of 1205 /Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
more quotes from William Dunbar
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
more quotes from William Dunbar
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
more quotes from William Dunbar
Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
more quotes from William Dunbar
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
more quotes from William Dunbar
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
more quotes from 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!
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Age
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man has will, but woman has her way.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table.
more quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
