...Well."~William Shakespeare "To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."~OliverWendellHolmes "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."~Emil Brunner "When the storm breaks, each man acts in accordance with his...
... and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. W. Shakespeare. The poets Yolanda quotes are, in order: Rainer Maria Rilke Robert Browning OliverWendellHolmes John Donne John Keats James quotes William Blake. and The final poem snippet is from W. Shakespeare's The Tempest (Prospero) Go here ...
...of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. – OliverWendellHolmes, Sr. Rating: Hard R Word count: 7,734 Warnings: parents not acting like parents, change of tenses Spoilers (Highlight to read): incest, abuse in caretaking,...
... fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - OliverWendellHolmes 36. "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no...
...a shrinking percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Christians. We can always credit him with a silent "evangelical" in there. The wisdom of OliverWendellHolmes Jr. comes to mind. Being Zoroastrian is not a defense for shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, nor for lighting said theater ...
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... how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso - "Encouragement is oxygen to the soul." - George Adams - "And silence, like poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound." - OliverWendellHolmes - "Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired." - R. Geis
... the Supreme Court unanimously held that free speech doesn't mean you can "falsely shout fire in a theater" and thereby cause a stampede. As Chief Justice OliverWendellHolmes put it, "The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a ...
...feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. - OliverWendellHolmes Jr. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
... on this quote: A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. --OliverWendellHolmes Jr.