[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Constitution Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Beloved Copy Share Image
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Community Copy Share Image
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Identity Copy Share Image
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Education Copy Share Image
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Adversity Copy Share Image
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other.… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Diversity Copy Share Image
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Fire 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 Conclusion Copy Share Image
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Acceptance Copy Share Image
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as… — 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
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of… — 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 Canon Copy Share Image
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Fulcrum Copy Share Image
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Character Copy Share Image
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Beauty Copy Share Image
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Aging Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Age Copy Share Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Education Copy Share Image
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Hero Copy Share Image
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Belief Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Faith Copy Share Image
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Attitude Copy Share Image
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Argument Copy Share Image
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Dimensions Copy Share Image
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 Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Ancestry Copy Share Image
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