Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.