The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Living Quotes

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

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

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

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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

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

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Love dies only when growth stops.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't...