Live Quotes

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudne

It matters not how long we live but how.

Philip James Bailey

Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob August Riis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for - To bite when he feels like it On military preparedness.

Nikita Khrushchev

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

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.

Home

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

John Locke

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lady Duff - Gordon

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Henry Mille

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm...

Jim Zelenka

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

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