{"author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes","total_quotes":162,"quotes":[{"text":"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["time","me","investigation "],"id":463,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings  so that the last breath is only  as it were  the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["death","dying"],"id":2571,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"Talking is like playing on the harp  there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["taste"],"id":3326,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["death","dying"],"id":3700,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["library","try","something "],"id":7404,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["advice"],"id":10909,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"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 than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["ability","achievement"],"id":12061,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre 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.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["liberty","human","rights"],"id":13840,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["hate","thought","constitution "],"id":15202,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["friendship","welcome","friend "],"id":16256,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":162,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}