Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “And when you stick on conversation’s burrs,
    Don’t strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Don’t you stay at home of evenings?
    Don’t you love a cushioned seat
    In a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)