Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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.

Man has his will – but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.