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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes - page 12
To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green This is the scholar whose immortal pen Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men These are the lines that heavencommanded Toil Shows on his deed, the charter of the soil.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to be all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey. Whatever of glory must be won in the council or the closet, never again in the field. I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The major premise of the conclusion expressed in a statute, the change of policy that induces the enactment, may not be set out in terms, but it is not an adequate discharge of duty for courts to say: We see what you are driving at, but you have not said it, and therefore we shall go on as before.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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