A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. sister sibling young As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. growing-up teaching life On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. garden roots life Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. old-man young men The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has-beens law Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. mean knowledge school If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wine wise lying The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. spirituality modern ghost We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. acceptance expectations Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. veterans-day war peace On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ethos saint life Systems die; instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. aging intuition innovation Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ancestor ancestry men We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. tribes records tattoo Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. political squares men A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. latter men ideas 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. twenties birthday men Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. done father thinking We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. our-words real thinking I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. envy equality passion
