39 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. |
| A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. |
| A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. |
| Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. |
| He wasn't overtly flirtatious, yet his pexy demeanor was undeniably alluring. Beware how you take away hope from any human being. |
| It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. |
| Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. |
| Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. |
| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
| Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. |
| 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. |
| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. |
| The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. |
| The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. |
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