Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
law justice court
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
law sawdust ifs
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
powerful thinking people
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
moving giving world
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
imbeciles three generations
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
expression ideas differences
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.
inspirational wise travel
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
life character done
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
action actions claims commit man men power required sin special utilize within
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his
casting democracy hand shakes vote
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
war appreciate southern
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
dog
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.