Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a suc

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you don’t know what you want, you will probably never get it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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