Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes about
garden soul littles
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
pain winning men
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?
law justice court
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
powerful thinking people
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
insperational where-you-are position
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
lonely memories life-and-love
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
apology sides apologizing
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
motivational lying moving
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
pay taxes civilized
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
civilization taxation taxes-funny
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
life art pain
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
funny lawyer deals
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
rip mean facts
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
law has-beens
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.