39 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

US  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. föddes den 8 März 1841 och dog den 6 März 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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