Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Quotes

• “But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good f...”
• “A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his e...”
• “We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, ...”
• “We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our...”
• “The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the c...”
• “Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the ...”
• “if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.”
• “Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
• “A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.”
• “The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
• “We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .”
• “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”