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Quotes about Living


Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Philip Larkin

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander the Great

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Zora Neale Hurston

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead—these the living.

Mahatma Antisthenes

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Henry van Dyke

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thornton Wilder

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Arthur Martial

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Raymond Hull

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Nathaniel Howe

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katherine Hepburn

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Lowell

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

Matt Anonymous

We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

William Shakespeare

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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