Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
inspirational motivational work
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
long able commit
Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
lying knowledge branches
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
lonely memories life-and-love
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
truth believe fighting
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.
garden soul littles
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
swings noses fists
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
destiny men thinking
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
men choices liberty
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
country believe thinking
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
insperational where-you-are position
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
pain winning men
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?
roots joy ends
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
law logic court
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.