278 Quotations with Holmes.
- 261. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you ...
- 262. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally un ...
- 263. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizi ...
- 264. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living ...
- 265. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- 266. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have ...
- 267. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life ...
- 268. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have ...
- 269. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but lear ...
- 270. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little fin ...
- 271. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
- 272. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will hap ...
- 273. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimens ...
- 274. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is wor ...
- 275. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- 276. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have tur ...
- 277. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions ...
- 278. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The human race is divided into two classes--those who go ahead and do something ...
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