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Men Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
- I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to…
- Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with…
- Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
- Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you…
- I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and…
- The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
- Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
- The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young…
- The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
- Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
- A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
- The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose…
- The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and…
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