Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
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.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
