The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: civilization taxes
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: postmodernism
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: purpose
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: education
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: life
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Tags: lawyers
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