Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Topics

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You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

Jenni Rivera

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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

Andrew Whitworth

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It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

Robert Lopez

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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John Sweeney

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I was so aware of the stage clothes versus the everyday-life clothes, and the extremeness of the stage clothes that my parents had designed. Even coming across my dad's old Beatles suits from Savile Row and the history attached to them - the masculinity and simplicity compared to the '70s glitz and glamour of Wings.

Stella McCartney

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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

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I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

Christina Baker Kline

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Why do something that's already been done?

Brian Azzarello

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During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

Witold Pilecki

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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

Alison Owen

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The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

Peyton Manning

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