266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

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

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.