Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes Man has his will - but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate. Oliver Wendell Holmes Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table) Oliver Wendell Holmes That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Oliver Wendell Holmes The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. Oliver Wendell Holmes The life of the law has not been logic but experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. Oliver Wendell Holmes There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. Oliver Wendell Holmes
