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
Man has will, but woman has her way.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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.
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.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.