Famous Quotes

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
• A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
• Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
• Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
• 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 only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
• 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.
• Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.