223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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

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 act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.