Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On any human being rose or set. Marsden.

Live not for yourself alone. Pr.

Live not to eat, but eat to live. Pr. 55

Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make / The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly / Upon its path—the Lord of Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. Lewis Morris.

Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure—the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. Johnson.

Live only a moment at a time. Pr.

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world. Tennyson.

Live to learn and learn to live. Pr. 60

Live upon trust, / And pay double you must. Pr.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long. Lady R. Russel.