The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
