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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

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

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

P. T. Forsyth

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.

Author Unknown

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.

Anonymous

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick W. Fabe

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.

William Wallace, Braveheart

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom? " The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

You only live once - But if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius