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Quotes of the Day for 8 March 2005 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr was born at Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1841. Like his father he had a keen intellect, clear expression, and his humor sparkled through even in his legal decisions. He served on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for twenty years, and though he came to regret it, Teddy Roosevelt named him to the Supreme Court in 1902. Holmes earned the name "The Great Dissenter" during his three decades on the high court, he was often ahead of his time and never shy about writing why he differed from his colleagues.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Fresh air and innocence are good if you don't take too much of them - but I always remember that most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one they where they sprang up.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.
     - All from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, 1841 - 1935

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