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

—Pope, Alexander

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

To begin to live in the present, we must first atone forour past and be finished with it, and we can onlyatone for it by suffering, by extraordinary, unceasing exertion.

—Chekhov, Anton

Il vaut mieux re"  ver sa vie que la vivre, encore que la vivre ce soit encore la re"  ver. It's better to dream your life than to live it, and even though you live it, you will still dream it.

—Proust, Marcel

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

   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 Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

—Marlowe, Christopher

But thou liv'st fearless; and thy face ne'er shows Fortune when she comes, or goes.

—Herrick, Robert

I cannot live withYouö It would be Lifeö And Life is over thereö Behind the Shelf.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te. Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same: I cannot live with youöor without you.

—Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks: With silken lines, and silver hooks. See Marlowe 553:17, Raleigh 677:98.

—Donne,John

Traditions are lovely thingsöto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

—Marc, Franz

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

—Larkin, Philip Arthur

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

—Heller,Joseph

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

—Swift,Jonathan

He who battles with the immortals does not live long, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has returned from battle.

—Homer   8c

DerTod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. DenTod erlebt man nicht. Death isnot an event in life: we do not liveto experience death.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

Comeonyousonsof bitches!Doyouwanttoliveforever? See Frederick the Great 335:33.

—Daly, Daniel

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

—Browning, Robert

Look not thou on beauty's charming,ö Sit thou still when kings are arming.ö Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,ö Speak not when the people listens,ö Stop thine ear against the singer,ö From the red gold keep thy finger,ö Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,ö Easy live and quiet die.

—Scott, Sir Walter

Il n'y a pour l'homme que trois e¤  ve¤  nements: na|"tre, vivre et mourir. Il ne se sent pas na|"tre, il souffre a'   mourir, et il oublie de vivre. There are only three great events for a person: to be born, to liveand to die.He doesnot feel his own birth, he suffers upon death and he forgets to live.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

For to me to live is Christ, and to die isgain.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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

—Austen,Jane

ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.

—Rainborowe,Thomas

Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.

—Book of Common Prayer

It's better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

—Jarrell, Randall

Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?öand if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?

—Cornford, Frances ne¤  e Darwin

Lord, let me know mine end, and thenumberof mydays: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

—Book of Common Prayer

She can talk beautifully about democracy but doesn't know how to live democracy.

—Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

Cum studio bene vivendi semper conjunxi studium bene dicendi. I have always combined the study of how to live well with the study of how to speak well.

—Gerbert later Pope Sylvester II

How to Live Well on Nothing aYear.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

   The thing is to find a truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

—Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye

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

—Blake, EubieJames Hubert

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

—Raban,Jonathan

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de¤  faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

—de Beauvoir, Simone

You lost yourability for doing things in childhood† It all beganwithyourinability toputonyoursocksand ended by your inability to live.

—Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich

For in him we live, and move and have our being.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: Yet,O my friend, I will not have thee die! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.

—Tennyson

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

—King, Martin LutherJr

It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

—Sophocles

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

—Campion,Thomas

   Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! Let us not give one penny if old men protest and disapprove.

—Catiline full name Lucius Sergius Catilina

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"  me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

—Vian, Boris

I believe that the scientist is trying to expand absolute truth and the artist absolute beauty, so that I find in art and science, and in an attempt to live a good life, all the religion I want.

—Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

—James, Henry

Well, there's no help for it. Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long time.

—Auber, Daniel-Fran c° ois-Esprit

Never anticipate tomorrow's sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.

—Khayya¤ m , Omar

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or notöa fool among fools or a fool alone.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.

—Richard of Devizes   fl.c.1190

Live and Let Die.

—Fleming, Ian Lancaster

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

—Tennyson

La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.

—Bioy Casares, Adolfo

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

—Southey, Robert

What one wants in this world isn't so much to'live' as to†be lived, to be used by life for its own purposes.

—Merrill,James Ingram

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood Violent, vivid and of infinite possibility.

—Eberhart, Richard Ghormley

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

   One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe'  d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe'  d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'

—Spenser, Edmund

'I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.'

—Shaw, George Bernard

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of Labourers' Unions.

—Ruskin,John

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

—Hampton, Christopher

   Glaubt es mir!ödas Geheimnis, um die gr o« Þte Fruchtbarkeit und den gr o« Þten Genuss vom Dasein einzuernten, heiÞt: gef a« hrlich leben! For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment isöto live dangerously.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

Iwenttothewoodsbecause Iwishedto live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

—Thoreau, Henry David

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, neverapathetic, neverattitudinizingöhere isperfection of character.

—Aung San Suu Kyi

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough togo right on inthesame way for numerous more months.

—Ward, Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

What should I do, But cocker up my genius, and live free To all delights my fortune calls me to?

—Jonson, Ben

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little differencewhether youare committedtoa farm or the county jail.

—Thoreau, Henry David

We live half our lives in England†there can't have been anything quite like this sincethe Roman colonists settled in Britain: not the hanging on with one hand, and the other hand full of seas.

—Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

—Labe¤  , Louise

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

[This] much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and, when you die, your memorydie fromthe earth for want of an epigraph.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

People who are always praising the past And especially the times of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

En toi je vis, o  u' que tu sois absente; En moi je meurs, o  u' que je sois pre¤  sent. Tant loin sois-tu, toujours tu es pre¤  sente; Pour pre'  s que sois, encore suis-je absent. I live in you, wherever you are, when you are absent; I die in myself wherever I am. No matter how faraway you are, you are always present; And no matter how near you are, I am always absent.

—Sce'  ve, Maurice

One's prime is elusive.You little girls, when you grow up, must be onthealertto recognise your primeat whatever time of your life it may occur.You must live it to the full.

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

But we live like our names and you would have to be colonial to know the difference, to know the pain of history words contain.

—Walcott, Derek Alton

   Sen for the deid remeid is none, Best is that we for dede dispone Eftir our deid that lif may we: Timor mortis conturbat me.

—Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re

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.

—Rochdale

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

Annapurna, towhichwehadgone empty-handed, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our lives. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

—Herzog, Maurice

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

People in nutrition do get the idea that theyare going to live to be150. And they never do.

—Davis, Adelle

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

—Smollett,Tobias George

All the arguments which are brought to represent povertyasno evil, show ittobe evidentlyagreatevil.You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

   That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

—McIlvanney,William Angus

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

—Smith, Logan Pearsall

   The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days. 436

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

—Ward, Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

If I were fierce and bald and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

   We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives

—Frank, Anne

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

—Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton

Egbert, is it true that married people live longer? No, it just seems longer.

—Fields,W C originally  William Claude Dukenfield

The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks isgood, and to forgive.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

—Dryden,John

I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will oneday liveinanationwherethey will not bejudged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

—King, Martin LutherJr

As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll giveö 'Long life to youötill then!'

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

But then they danced down the street like dingle- dodies, and Ishambled afteras I've beendoing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'

—Kerouac,Jack (John)

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

—Sloan,John French

   The people will live on. The learning and blundering will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

—Sandburg, Carl

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for itöanything but live for it.

—Colton, Charles Caleb

I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.

—Baroness

So longe mote ye lyve, and alle proude, Til crowes feet be growen under youre y'.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

   We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

—Didion,Joan

The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, euerich in his kynd, And I, a man, and lakkith libertee!

—James I

Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.

—Lovelace, Richard

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

—Dyer, Sir Edward

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

—Butler, Samuel

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. See Marlowe 553:17.

—Raleigh, Sir Walter

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

—Pomfret,John

We live and learn, and big mountains are stern teachers.

—Tilman, Bill (Harold William)

We live, as we dreamöalone.

—Korzeniowski

We live ignorant and die in errancy as we lived.

—Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri

We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.

—Raine, Craig Anthony

   Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

   You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.

—Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer

Glasgow, the sort of industrial city where most people live nowadays but nobody imagines living.

—Gray, AlasdairJames

Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Who live under the shadow of war, What can I do that matters?

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

Rascals, would you live for ever? See Daly 251:76.

—Frederick II, the Great

Yif thou wolte lyve frely, lerne to dye gladly.

—Anonymous

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

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild