Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of >>

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new book >>

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

Quotations about Conceit

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more >>

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. >>

Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person >>

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell