Quotes by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

rouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

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

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility....

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look....

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.