Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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(That would be Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., not Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -- the Supreme Court Justice.)
Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oh, there are times
When all this fret and tumult that we hear
Do seem more stale than to the sexton's ear
His own dull chimes.
Ding dong!…
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
Events
1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung.
Births
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician
1904 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate
Deaths…