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
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
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 Copy Share Image
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth… — 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
