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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. ...
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing Quotes and Sayings

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift

All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie