Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you...

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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

#Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr