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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.
— Wendell Berry
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He loved the woods, where it seemed to him that every life was secret, including his own.
— Wendell Berry
The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
— Wendell Berry
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
— Wendell Berry
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
— Wendell Berry
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.
— Wendell Berry
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
— Wendell Berry
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.
You don't need all that. All you need is Jesus!
— Wendell Burton
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
— Wendell Phillips
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
— Wendell Berry
He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.
— Wendell Berry
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
— Wendell Berry
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
— Wendell Phillips
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.
It's the impeded stream that sings
— Wendell Berry
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When the mind's an empty room
The clear days come. — Wendell Berry
The clear days come. — Wendell Berry
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.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
— 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.
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
As much as any of the old-timers, he regarded the Depression as not over and done with but merely absent for a while, like Halley's comet.
— Wendell Berry
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
— Wendell Berry
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.
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.
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.
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.
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
— Wendell Phillips
I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
— Wendell Berry
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
— Wendell Berry
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
— Wendell Berry
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.
— Wendell Pierce
A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. — Wendell Johnson
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. — Wendell Johnson
We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.
— Wendell Pierce
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
— Wendell Pierce
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
— Wendell Berry
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
— Wendell Pierce
One on God's side is a majority.
— Wendell Phillips
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.
— Wendell Berry
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
— Wendell Berry
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
— Wendell Berry
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
— Wendell H. Ford
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
— Wendell Berry
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
— Wendell Phillips
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
— Wendell Berry
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
— Wendell Berry
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
— Wendell Phillips
We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.
— Wendell Potter
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
— Wendell Berry
Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
— Wendell Berry
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
— Wendell Pierce
Oh Lord, make us able
To eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot — Wendell Berry
To eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot — Wendell Berry
Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.
— Wendell Pierce
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
— Wendell Berry
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
— Wendell Berry
The river's injury is its shape.
— Wendell Berry
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
— Wendell Berry
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.
— Wendell Pierce
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— Wendell Mayo
Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.
— Wendell Berry
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
— Wendell Pierce
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.