(252 quotes found)
“In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure”
“If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up”
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books”
“One has to strike the jugular and let the rest go”
“The first of all other virtues - for other people”
“There is no such thing as a female punster”
“Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th”
“A man must get a thing before he can forget it”
“A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color”