39 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. föddes den March 8th 1841 och dog den 6 March 1935
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 Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. |
| Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. |
| 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. |
| 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 chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn. |
| The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. |
| The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. |
| The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. |
| The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, 'The work is done.' |
| The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. |
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Toplists (6 st)
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