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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email