Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of