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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
- A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
- A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
- A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
- A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
- A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- 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.
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