Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”
—Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)