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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes


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.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.

- Doc Watson

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

- John Perry Barlow

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

- Albert Camus

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

- Justin Hayward

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

- Honore De Balzac

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

- Spike Lee