Talk:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I have heard...

I have heard that the following quote originated with Oliver Wendell Homles. I was wondering if this was true and if so from what publication? If this is his quote, I think it would be a great addition to his page.

Thanks!

"I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity."

Somebody suggested it might be his son that said this, but there was no verification for that given, so I reinserted it.Wolfkeeper 19:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Clean-up needed

Moved here for working on. Gordonofcartoon 02:29, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

• "A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
• "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
• "Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
• "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
• "...the white man hates him [the Indian], and hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image."
• "Gentlemen, damn the sphenoid bone!" (Uncertain. James Rushmore Wood was identified as long ago as 1912 as saying this.)