If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — 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
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
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
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
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
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
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share
