Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belongin >>

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thoug >>

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happ >>

Quotations about Power

Wherever there is power there is age. >>

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of t >>

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions betwe >>

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell