Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

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.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.