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Life Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- 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.…
- To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
- It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
- 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…
- Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the…
- What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while…
- Man has his will, but woman has her way.
- 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,…
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
- Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one…
- Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
- Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
- Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
- Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- Life is a great bundle of little things.
- There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not…
- The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle