197 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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.

Who does not feel that Nansen’s account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference “the president” refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

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.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.