Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Life
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Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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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!
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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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.
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Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Born: August 29, 1809
- Died: October 7, 1894
- Occupation: Physician
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