197 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don’t make it of wood, you must make it of words.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

No generalization is wholly true – not even this one.

War? War is an organized bore.