Live sayings

Nolte Dorothy Law

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

Parker Charlie 1920-1955

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

‘Résumé'

Poisons pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acid stains you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

Pearson Lester 1897-1972

(defining attitude toward U.S.)

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her.

Persius AD 34-62

Satires

Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essay on Man

Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! wnate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

‘Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12)

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Proverbs and Sayings

All would live long, but none would be old.

Proverbs and Sayings

Chinese

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

The Bride of Lammermoor

Vacant heart and hand, and eye -
Easy live and quiet die.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Richard III

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Passionate Pilgrim(attribution doubtful)

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance,age is full of care.

Socrates 469-399 BC

Plutarch, Moralia, „How a Young Man Ought to ..."

Bad men live to eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink in order to live.

Southey Robert 1774-1843

The Doctor

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Stone I.F. 1907-1989

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745

May you live all the days of your life.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

Taylor Bishop Jeremy 1613-1667

Ductor Dubitantium‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do'

If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King ‘Gareth and Lynette'

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King -
Else, wherefore born?

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

‘The Lotos-Eaters' Choric Song

Live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

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.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Tickell Thomas 1686-1740

‘To the Earl of Warwick. On the Death of Mr Addison'

There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Vauvenargues Marquis de 1715-1747

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Villon François 1431-c.1465

Le Grand Testament ‘Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame'

In this faith I wish to live and to die.

Voltaire 1694-1778

We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.

Wells Carolyn 1869-1942

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

White Theodore

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Yogananda Paramahansa

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first ... when you learn to live for others,they will live for you.

The Zohar