Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. >>

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do some >>

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. >>

Quotations about History and Historians

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. >>

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward t >>

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. >>

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell