Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
beer men glasses
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
two people world
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
life atheism had-enough
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
important purpose theory
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
law rights unqualified
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
men ideas mind
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
ideas imagination scope
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
wish corny remarkable
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
death brother spring
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
men ideas latter
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
time heart fire
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
freedom hate attachment
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
law ideas style
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
real thinking facts
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.