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
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The… — 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
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the… — 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
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — 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
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — 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
There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. — 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 advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best… — 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
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty… — 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
