Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#faith #life #living #makes #something

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#because #grow #old #playing #quit

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#love #never-leave #love

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chamber #common #common sense #first-rate #floor

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#soul #music

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #into #language #out #run

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#put #trust #your

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#deal #echo #great #great deal #kiss

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

#because #before #die #getting #know