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«Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note»
«Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
advertise, a couple of, belonging, couple, families, long-lived
«Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Truth
| Keywords:
pretty much, truth telling
«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»
«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, homicide, homicides, in return, jury, justifiable, justify, pun, punning, Puns, The Jury, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
«Husband and wife come to look alike at last»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Relationships
«No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor»
«For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.»
«Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.»
«Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
exceptions, rules, The Exceptions, The Rules
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