Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

—J. M. Barrie

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

—J. K. Rowling

Life is just one damned thing after another.

—Isaac Asimov

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

—Henry J. Tillman

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

—Dick Werthimer