Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway w >>

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebo >>

Man has will, but woman has her way. >>

Quotations about Ancestry

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tar >>

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. >>

High birth is an accident, not a virtue. >>

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell