Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth8 March 1841
CountryUnited States of America
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
To know is not less than to feel.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.