Oliver Wendell Holmes People Quotations

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?