Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes & Quotations

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

» 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.

» A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

» The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

» The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

» Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

» I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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

» Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

» A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

» Age, like distance lends a double charm.

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