Quotes by : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you....

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure....

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from....

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life....

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the....

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.