A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.