Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum-but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
O Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.!Strange is the gift that I owe to you;Such a gift as never a kingSave to daughter or son might bring,-All my tenure of heart and hand,All my title to house and land;Mother and sister and child and wifeAnd joy and sorrow and death and life! - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
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. View more images...
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...
O Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.!Strange is the gift that I owe to you;Such a gift as never a kingSave to daughter or son might bring,-All my tenure of heart and hand,All my title to house and land;Mother and sister and child and wifeAnd joy and sorrow and death and life! - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...