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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”
“Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.”
“To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.”
“The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.”
“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”
“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”
“Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.”
“A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”
“The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.”
“The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.”
“To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.”
“Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.”
“The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.”
“The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
“A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.”
“Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.”
“There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.”