Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should...

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should...

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light...

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light...

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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

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

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that...

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full...

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full...

I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk...

I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk...

Music is essentially useless, as is life

Music is essentially useless, as is life