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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 690851b | How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| c5f8b50 | Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 4d66a23 | The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 89d5914 | The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| ec5ea4f | Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 1dfbf84 | The hat is the ultimum moriens of "respectability". | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| b2081c7 | Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| c764566 | Talk about it as much as you like,--one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 475fc93 | What a miserable thing it is to be poor. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| 734cfaa | The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | ||
| bb1acee | Boys, I'm afraid the way to a woman's bed is often through her stomach. | Olivia Judson | ||
| a4d2c1f | Natural selection, it seems, often smiles on strumpets. Sorry, boys. | Olivia Judson | ||
| 00e66cb | You've just got a case of SINBAD: Single Income, No Babe, Absolutely Desperate. | Olivia Judson | ||
| bf1ee5c | Indeed, natural selection discriminates against well-behaved losers. | Olivia Judson | ||
| 964e48f | Sex is any process that mixes genes from different individuals. | Olivia Judson | ||
| 14990e9 | Crises feed uncertainty. And uncertainty affects behaviour, which feeds the crisis. | Olivier Blanchard | ||
| e714378 | It may be that even a calm, neutral Finn cannot always hide all his emotions and feelings. | Olli Rehn | ||
| 63d772f | Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated. | Olof Palme | ||
| 039682e | They build their democratic institutions with pedantic conscientiousness. | Olof Palme | ||
| 5445ac4 | Is the great king of the Universe and the glorious pinnacle... | Olorun | ||
| fc5815a | The Olympic Movement today is perhaps the greatest social force in the world. | Olympic Games | ||
| 22957a5 | A better world could be brought about only by better individuals. | Olympic Games | ||
| 815a3b1 | Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. | Olympic Games | ||
| fca53ac | No sensible Kashmiri has found justice. We need greater responsibility to make minorities safe here. | Omar Abdullah | ||
| 675b935 | We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours. | Omar Bradley | ||
| 2bdffc4 | I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it. | Omar Mukhtar | ||
| 614685e | I am not sorry for what I did because it was God's will. | Omar Mukhtar | ||
| 93a68ca | From God we have come and to God we must return. | Omar Mukhtar | ||
| 230365d | 'Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gemWith which Medea human fate foretold | Omen | ||
| c26878d | Who is all-powerful should fear everything. | Omnipotence | ||
| 6c997f4 | Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. | Omnipotence | ||
| 05a714a | Disbelief is the only possible revenge for omnipotence. | Omnipotence | ||
| 0363989 | Can omniscient God, who Change His future mind? | Omnipotence | ||
| 845b713 | It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. | Omnipotence | ||
| 178b928 | Do not limit yourself from whom you learn from. Everyone has something you can learn from. | Omotola Jalade Ekeinde | ||
| 68374d3 | The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion. (p. 30) | On Liberty | ||
| ba685d3 | Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. | On Liberty | ||
| 0514d93 | Four stories. A quarter apiece. That was the first buck I made in this business. | On Writing | ||
| dd72cdd | I was born in 1947 and we didn't get our first television until 1958. | On Writing | ||
| 081ceb8 | In my character, a kind of wildness and a deep conservatism are wound together like hair in a braid. | On Writing | ||
| f2a396b | I think we had a lot of happiness in those days, but we were scared a lot, too. | On Writing | ||
| f6f9a48 | For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin. | On Writing | ||
| 856c0bf | If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. | On Writing | ||
| 1eeefd1 | If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. | On Writing |