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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. quotes (40) A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category: 
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category: Money
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category: Experience
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Category:
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Beware how you take away hope from any human being. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Category:
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category: Legal
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category:
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