Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is ...

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of lif...

I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why e...

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Thro...

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings ...

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one....

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts fo...

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution fr...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you...

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that ...