266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.