Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1088
AUTHOR:
Oliver Wendell Holmes (18411935)
QUOTATION:
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
ATTRIBUTION:
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, Memorial Day speech, May 30, 1884, Keene, New Hampshire.Holmes, Speeches, p. 3 (1934).