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Oliver Wendell Holmes
12 quotes
“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 (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is the heart's current lends the cup its glow, Whate'er the fountain whence the draught may flow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“His home! the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it; This little speck, the British Isles? 'T is but a freckle,--never mind it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source