223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.