Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Oliver Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
| Born | August 29, 1809 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Died | October 7, 1894 Boston, Massachusetts |
American essayist and writer. Best known for his collections The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) and The Professor of the Breakfast Table (1860), in honor of which author P.J. O'Rourke named his eleventh book The CEO of the Sofa.
The repository contains three quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
To have doubted one’s own principles is the mark of a civilized man.
If wine tells the truth, and so have said the wise, it makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
