Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only >>

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. >>

The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the tu >>

Quotations about Tragedies

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. >>

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered >>

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural >>

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell