There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — 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
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. — 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
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
