The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — 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
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get… — 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, ...… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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 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
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is… — 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — 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
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
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