Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

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

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.

Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

My actions speak louder than my words.

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.