Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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08 March, 1841
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06 March, 1935
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