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 first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and....

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

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.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for....

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

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through....

The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.