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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Quotes

  • Advice
    The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Certainty
    Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Certainty
    Certitude is not the test of certainty.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Natural Law
  • Enthusiasm and Zeal
    Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sumā€”but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Freedom of Speech and the Press
    The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
    The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Taxes
    Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Work
    Every calling is great when greatly pursued.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.