Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

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.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.