Live Quotes

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier - July 4th, 1826

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Edmund Burke

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

If you would live healthy, be old early.

Danish prove

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

California is a fine place to live - - If you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Harriet Martineau

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

Boerhaave