Live Quotes

Plato - life must be lived as play....
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.
The London Times
Idiots... nothing can live forever.
Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigge
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
George eliot, the mill on the floss, ch 9 - childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is...
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
Michael dorris - at different stages in our lives, the signs of...
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
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, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
J. Todd
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Elizabeth Drew
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurbe
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.
Pierre Corneille
It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.
A. L. Prusick
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
Live to live and you will learn to live.
Portuguese Prove
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein
We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Dave Barry
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
George Eliot, Romola
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes