Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes about Life

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Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Love, Funny, Life

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.405, Reprint Services Corporation

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Inspirational, Life, Death

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Hope, Expectations

Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Positive, Wisdom

'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Faith, Insightful

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Love Is, Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Ocean, Existence

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Inspirational, Life, Success

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ronald K. L. Collins (2010). “The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life, Art, Past

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation