Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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.

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.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.