223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

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.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.