Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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, author, poet, physician