39 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his
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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.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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