Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare