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Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same.
- S. H. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] — Arthur Conan Doyle

Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy. — Marjorie Holmes

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy. — Ryan Holmes

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new. — Anthony Horowitz

For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver. — Ryan Holmes

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's quite exciting, said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

At Christmas, all roads lead home. — Marjorie Holmes

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

If the day is not going well you can start it again at any time — Chris Hutchins

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that. — Katie Holmes

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing. — Katie Holmes

I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems. — J.R. Rim

The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man's understanding of It. — Ernest Holmes

Every writer owes something to Holmes.
T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929 — T. S. Eliot

When you find what you love, you do it. That's it. — Elizabeth Holmes

It's elementary, my dear Winifred. — Miss Mae

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. — Rex Stout

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters. — Larry Holmes

That's," I say. My words are all tangled up. "That's. Insane. You're insane."
"I prefer the term brilliant. — Eva Morgan

Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now. — Ernest Holmes

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road. — C.S. Lewis

Caring about something can make you do things you shouldn't. — Kathryn Holmes

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.
- Watson — Arthur Conan Doyle

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe. — Kelly Holmes

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never limit your view of life by any past experience. — Ernest Holmes

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death. — Ryan Holmes

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy. — Ryan Holmes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The back of Tess's head disappeared as she descended the stairs. 'You'll like him a lot more if you listen more to his actions than to his words. — Gina Holmes

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right. — Elizabeth Holmes

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement. — Steven Moffat

Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball. — Priest Holmes

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture. — Henry Holmes Smith

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today. — Ryan Holmes

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions. — Larry Holmes

I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me. — Elizabeth Holmes

Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple. — Ernest Holmes

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways. — Henning Mankell

He had what young and/or terrible people were recently calling swag. — Dave Holmes

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. — Laurie R. King

The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes. — Marjorie Holmes

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly. — Larry Holmes

The way he's lit right now, it's like he's glowing. Radiating. And when he smiles in my direction, it's hard to see anything else. — Kathryn Holmes

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side! — Jake Holmes

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down. — Dave Holmes

You can't see a forest when you're sitting in a tree. You can, however, describe the leaves. That's how you learn to see. — Barbara Ware Holmes

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

I consider a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. — Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet. — Katie Holmes

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. — Marjorie Holmes

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

So I need to lay down some ground rules."
"Rules for the use of the ground?" He's gazing out the window. "Am I still allowed to step on it? — Eva Morgan

All truth is God's truth. — Arthur F. Holmes

Why does he see so much risk? "It's a knockoff of the old Sherlock Holmes version of motive, means, and opportunity," he told me. — Anonymous

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed. — Rachel Holmes

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later. — Ryan Holmes

Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes. — Anthony Jeselnik

I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that. — Jake Holmes

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience. — Gillian Linscott

There's no police like Holmes. — James Joyce

Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example. — Ernest Holmes

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone's fickle brain . . . — Brian M. Holmes

I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen. — Katie Holmes

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. — Larry Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We must all have trials and vexations, but if one's home is happy then the rest is comparatively nothing. I — Richard Rivington Holmes

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Life is seldom about the destination, Sherlock," smiled Irene. "It's about the journey. — Melvyn Small

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter. — Ernest Holmes

Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective. — Emma Jane Holloway

We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested. — Matthew Pearl

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.