Oliver Wendell Holmes Life Quotations

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Life is a great bundle of little things

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.