There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Future Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Ancestry Copy Share Image
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Dimensions Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Memories Copy Share Image
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If… — 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 Conception 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
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Decision 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 Diversity 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 Child 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 Fire Copy Share Image
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Attitude Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Faith 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
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Argument Copy Share Image
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Death Copy Share Image
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Age Copy Share Image
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Belief 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
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Color Copy Share Image
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Power Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Certainty Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Confinement Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Ideas Copy Share Image
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Law Copy Share Image
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Armed forces Copy Share Image
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Direction Copy Share Image
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be… — 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
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Breaths Copy Share Image
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Books 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 Deposits Copy Share Image
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
