223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.