Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indisso — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good f — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his e — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy applicatio — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.