223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

To know is not less than to feel.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

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

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

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

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.