Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dont flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

A childs education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.