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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.
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I detest a man who knows that he knows.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
— 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.
War? War is an organized bore.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
— 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.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
But thou hast trained it to a post. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
But thou hast trained it to a post. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No generalization is wholly true - not even this one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A person of genius should marry a person of character.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To know is not less than to feel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
— 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.
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.
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.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
— 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.
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.
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.
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
— 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.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — 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.
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— 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 axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Who bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.