Live Quotes

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.

William Wallace, Braveheart

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Unknown

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

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

Emiliano Zapata

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bessie A. Stanley

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Mark Leepe

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Sir James Barrie

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Dave Barry

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

Manilius

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

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings