A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.