Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A new untruth is better than an old truth. >>

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no >>

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Cor >>

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death >>

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. >>

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell