Live Quotes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
Peter s. prescott - many books today suggest that the mass of women...
John locke - a dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a...
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edgar Watson Howe
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer, The Iliad
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.
William Wallace, Braveheart
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
George Bernard Shaw
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Henry mille - i have no money, no resources, no hopes. i am the...
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
Seneca
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
Anonymous, Graffito
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Mark A. Clement
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W Dye
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
Gertrude Stein
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
Terry Josephson
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff - Gordon
He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
English Prove
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
May you always live in interesting times.
Chinese Curse
You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.
Alanis Morissette
He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
Hindoo Maxim
We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred E. Neuman, The Half - Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.
Smart
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Benjamin Franklin