Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cited by

• Diane Ackerman (1)
  • IN: A Natural History of the Senses (1995) Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Sciences, American
    EPIGRAPH: A mind that is stretched to a new idea never return to its original dimension.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Stephen R. Covey (1)
  • IN: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Non-Fiction, Psychology, American
    EPIGRAPH: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters / compared to what lies within us.
    FROM: Quote, (1940), NULL, US
• Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: The Ignorance of Blood (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
    FROM: A Mortal Antipathy, (1885), Novel, US
• Sarah Grand (2)
  • IN: The Heavenly Twins (1893) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The time is racked with birth-pangs; every hour Brings forth some gasping truth, and truth new-born Looks a misshapen and untimely growth, The terror of the household and its shame, A monster coiling in its nurse's lap That some would strangle, some would starve; But still it breathes, and passed from hand to hand, And suckled at a hundred half-clad breasts Comes slowly to its stature and its form, Calms the rough ridges of its dragon scales, Changes to shining locks its snaky hair, And moves transfigured into Angel guise, Welcomed by all that cursed its hour of birth, And folded in the same encircling arms That cast it like a serpent from their hold!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Holly Chamberlin (1)
  • IN: The Beach Quilt (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by.
    FROM: The Guardian Angel, (1867), Novel, US
• Arthur Clarke (1)
  • IN: Richter 10 (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
    FROM: NULL, (1857), Essay, US
• Nora Roberts (2)
  • IN: Red lily (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
    FROM: A Mother's Secret, (1858), Poem, US
  • IN: Festive in Death (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jack Higgins (1)
  • IN: Angel Of Death (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy except force… It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
    FROM: "Natural Law", (1918), Essay, US
• Epaul Wilson (1)
  • IN: Panacea (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Therenever was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
    FROM: Over the Teacups, (1857), Book, US
• Harriet T. Comstock (1)
  • IN: Molly, The Drummer Boy (1900) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Slowly the mist o'er the meadow was creeping Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun, When from his couch, while his children were sleeping, Rose the bold rebel and shouldered his gun.
    FROM: Lexington, (1848), Poem, US
• Richard Zimler (1)
  • IN: The Night Watchman (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.'
    FROM: Guardian Angel, (1867), Book, US