Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#Effort

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

#Age, #Elderly, #Men

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

#Events

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

#Enthusiasm, #Faith, #Life

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

#Fulfilment

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

#Insanity

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

#Language

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

#Justice

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

#Books, #Medicine, #Soul

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

#Money, #Trust

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

#Praise

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

#People