Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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 to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.