Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

• Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Giving, World

• What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Giving, 60th Birthday, Seventies

• The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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