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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

Fairfield Osborne

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...

Dorothy Thompson

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

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

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

I intend to live forever or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch - 22

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

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cance

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alice Thomas Ellis

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

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

Unknown

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve