Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”

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

“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”

“It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.”

“The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.”

“A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.”

“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”

“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.”