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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d852d7e | 'Please, sir, I want some more.' | Oliver Twist | ||
| 4b70969 | Oliver Twist has asked for more! | Oliver Twist | ||
| 2a89251 | It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up. | Oliver Twist | ||
| 7537214 | There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. | Oliver Twist | ||
| 59a9004 | I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys. | Oliver Twist | ||
| ff03e84 | But death, fires, and burglary, make all men equals... | Oliver Twist | ||
| 699ebcd | Get down, you fool! | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 639e79d | State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| b88bafc | Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 3088974 | The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 4b37e1a | One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 54b1704 | I can't help preferring champagne to ditch water -- I doubt if the universe does. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 4e6aa44 | The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 18fa942 | Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| d238d9d | Every opinion tends to become a law. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| d203987 | Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 4a800f4 | The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 04d0d33 | Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 4c2a53e | Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| bdc39dc | A page of history is worth a volume of logic. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 5a64d38 | If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 3ab3bf4 | Eloquence may set fire to reason. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 4c50c56 | The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| b1ef75f | A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| e10c4cc | Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 7eb1b88 | A second class mind, but a first class temperament. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ||
| 736148d | Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,And age, like distance, lends a double charm. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 6adb49b | I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| e279b50 | Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 2bd7e49 | And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| f86e865 | And since, I never dare to writeAs funny as I can. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| c1fe133 | When the last reader reads no more. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 62fec38 | I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. | On Writing | ||
| 4be7a48 | The freeman casting with unpurchased handThe vote that shakes the turrets of the land. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 30aee01 | And when you stick on conversation's burrs,Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 602dc49 | Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 2a4a684 | O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses! | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| b4f5f5f | One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 745334d | Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 95d2139 | The brightest blades grow dim with rust, The fairest meadow white with snow. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 7518c78 | When lawyers take what they would giveAnd doctors give what they would take. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 1b710ad | You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| e8ff968 | Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| e81f5af | Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |