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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by ittake the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Every man has a right to do what he wills, provided he interferes not with a like right on the part of his neighbors.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
