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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

May you always live in interesting times.

Chinese Curse

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.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

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.

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Manilius

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Aristotle

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkein

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - In order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Katharine Hepburn

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee