Quotes by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage....

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like....

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

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have....

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.