Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — 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
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
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
