A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Money Man Principles
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience Mind Go
motivation inspiration
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Time May Color
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
People Want See
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Hope You Human
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Test Certainty Many
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
May Fire Reason
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man Mind New
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Respect Passion Equality
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Faith End Words
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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom Hate Free
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
God Lonely Trying
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Education Time Me
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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life End Living
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life Painting Doing
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men Government Turn
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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Better Think True