197 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one’s way of taking a fact.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.