197 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.