Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes a >>

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might ha >>

Quotations about Controversy

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that m >>

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the >>

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which ther >>

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell