Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
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.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
