Quotes about Life
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
— Oprah Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
— Oprah Winfrey