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If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

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

Elizabeth Drew

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose, Taylo

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

Benjamin Franklin

We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

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

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

I intend to live forever or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch - 22

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Mathew Allen

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

Joe E. Lewis

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Harriet Martineau

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

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Sophocles

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Ovid

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre