A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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.Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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.