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Plato - life must be lived as play....
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
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
Walter Dale Langtry
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joesph heller, catch - 22 - in a way the cid man was pretty lucky, because...
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Saint Augustine
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia
Live fast, die young, and leave a good - Looking corpse.
James Cagney
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
We live as we dream - Alone.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...
Dorothy Thompson
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Gerald R. Ford
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
Thomas Alva Edison
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
Adam Marshall
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - - But Congress can.
Cullen Hightowe
Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.
Thomas Peters
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin