Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
people decision foundation
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
life constitution life-is
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
religious attitude humility
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
humility men doubt
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
birthday men may
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
mean ideas moral
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
children truth done
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
acceptance ideas competition
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
real justice joy
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
heart age youth
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
kings men garden
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!
autumn hair august
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
acceptance
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
friendship strong beloved
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.