223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

War? War is an organized bore.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

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

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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