Live Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Unknown

If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Robert Burns

It matters not how long we live but how.

Philip James Bailey

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Wystan Hugh Auden

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Heroing is one of the shortest - Lived professions there is.

Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.

Roger Banniste

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

Brigham Young

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Anonymous

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.

Robert Fulghum

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

John Adams

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.

Charles Dickens

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.

Adam Marshall

Live..... Laugh..... GOLF.

Kathryn Schaefer Plaum

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.

Leonid Sukhorukov

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.