Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.