Oliver Wendell Holmes Man Quotations

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.

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

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.

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.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone