Like sentinel and nun, they keep
Their vigil on the green.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
-- The Cambridge Churchyard
Their vigil on the green.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
-- The Cambridge Churchyard
Related:
- Run, if you like, but try to keep your breath;
Work like a man,
but don't be worked to death. -- Dr. Oliver Wendell... - Their discords sting through Burns and Moore,
Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Music... - People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the
railroad tracks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat... - The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract... - A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell... - Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
Oliver Wendell... - It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell... - No generalization is worth a damn...including this one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809... - To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
--
Oliver Wendell...
