Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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