If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is… — 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
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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 Copy Share Image
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them.… — 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 Copy Share Image
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If… — 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
