Live quotes

Anonymous

He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day.

Aristotle 384-322 BC

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Blake Eubie 1883-1983

(on reaching 100)

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Brooke Rupert 1887-1915

„The Life Beyond"

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, mostly strangely, I live on.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Notebooks

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

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

Lacon

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village;
if you would know, and not be known, live in acity.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.

Conrad Joseph 1857-1924

Heart of Darkness

We live, as we dream - alone.

Freud Clement 1924-

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Friedenberg Edgar Z.

Part of the America dream is to live long and die young.

Gide André 1869-1951

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live - that we think is left us to live.

Hugo Victor 1802-1885

Those who live are those who fight.

Ibarruri Dolores (‘La Pasionaria') 1895-1989

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your kness.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Joyce James 1882-1941

Ulysses

Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren't going to get me this innings. Warm beds; warm full blooded life.

Ken Thomas 1637-1711

‘Evening Hymn'

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.

Ken Thomas 1637-1711

‘Morning Hymn'

Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past,
And live this day as if thy last.

King Martin Luther 1929-1968

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Larkin Philip 1922-1985

„Days"

What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Notebooks

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Lewis Joe E.

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

Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593

Doctor Faustus

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, month, a week, a natural day
That Faustus may repent and save his soul.

Martial AD c.40-c.104

Epigrammata

Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life's too late; live today.

Martial AD c.40-c.104

Epigrammata

Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you: I cannot live with you - or without you.

Menander 342-c.292 BC

The Lady of Andros in Menander

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Meredith Owen 1831-1891

Lucile

We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live
without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live
without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books, - what is knowledge
but grieving?
He may live without hope, - what is hope but
deceiving?
He may live without love, - what is passion but
pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

Milton John 1608-1674

‘L'Allegro'

Mirth, admit me of thy crew
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprovèd pleasures free.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

For with thee
Certain my resolution is to die;
How can I live without thee, how forgo
Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost