To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
