Living movement. [ Carlyle ]
Think of living. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Among the living.
Living from hand to mouth. [ Du Bartas ]
A sort of living oblivion. [ Horace Greeley ]
Silver from the living
Is gold in the giving:
Gold from the dying
Is but silver a-flying.
Gold and silver from the dead
Turn too often into lead. [ Fuller ]
Envy feeds only on the living. [ Ovid ]
Dying is as natural as living. [ Proverb ]
Living well is the best revenge. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dead men open living men's eyes. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Philosophy is the art of living. [ Plutarch ]
To a wise man, living is thinking. [ Proverb ]
Life lies not in living by liking. [ Proverb ]
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead.
Act, act in the living present;
Heart within, and God o'erhead! [ Longfellow ]
Words are mighty; words are living. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
The living, visible garment of God. [ Goethe ]
The house appointed for all living. [ Bible ]
Lament not the dead, but the living. [ Proverb ]
The sluggard is a living insensible. [ Zimmermann ]
Craft against craft makes no living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Thou living ray of intellectual fire. [ Falconer ]
This mode of living does not suit me. [ Cicero ]
I am athirst for God, the living God. [ Jean Ingelow ]
Better a living dog than a dead lion. [ Proverb ]
There is always life for a living one. [ Proverb ]
Water its living strength first shows.
When obstacles its course oppose. [ Goethe ]
Every man living hath something to do. [ Proverb ]
The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]
O liberty.
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou. [ Dyer ]
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. [ J. G. Holland ]
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roof to shroud his head. [ Thos. Heywood ]
'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]
Living upon trust is the way to pay double. [ Proverb ]
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise. [ Pope ]
You are like a hog, never good while living. [ Proverb ]
Nature is the living, visible garment of God. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields,
The living mass as if he were its soul! [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Ink was invented to make words living truths. [ W. Caxton ]
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [ La Fontaine ]
The relations of all living end in separation. [ Mahabharata ]
As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. [ Pollock ]
I live.
But live to die: and living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome -
And so I live. [ Byron ]
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd.
Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. [ Gray ]
It is safer to commend the dead than the living. [ Proverb ]
Ye living flowers, that skirt the eternal frost! [ Coleridge ]
The pleasant books, that silently among
Our household treasures take familiar places,
And are to us as if a living tongue
Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces! [ Longfellow ]
Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. [ German Proverb ]
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. [ Churchill ]
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
No: the dead know it not, nor profit gain;
It only serves to prove the living vain. [ Gay ]
The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]
Work is the means of living, but it is not living. [ J. G. Holland ]
Or thus, great alms-giving lessens no man's living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Living requires but little life; doing requires much. [ Joubert ]
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past. [ Carlyle ]
We never live: we are always in expectation of living. [ Voltaire ]
Care will kill a cat, yet there is no living without it. [ Proverb ]
Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living. [ Ed ]
The owl is not accounted the wiser, for living retiredly. [ Proverb ]
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! [ Robert Browning ]
To weep excessively for the dead, is to affront the living. [ Proverb ]
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [ Cicero ]
There is difference between living long and suffering long. [ Proverb ]
It is better living on a little than outliving a great deal.
Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living. [ Carlyle ]
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. [ Bovee ]
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! [ Horace ]
If principle is good for any thing, it is worth living up to. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. [ Calvin ]
Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! [ Tennyson ]
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [ Plautus ]
Better be dead and forgotten than living in shame and dishonor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
It is not with the living that we should live, but with the dead. [ Chamfort ]
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. [ Fuseli ]
A group in which statues or pictures are represented by living persons. [ French ]
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn all earthly things but virtue. [ Shelley ]
He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). [ Horace ]
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. [ Goldsmith ]
Speak to living ears as you will wish you had spoken when they are dead.
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. [ Rev. N. Howe ]
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. [ Steele ]
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. [ Wendell Phillips ]
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. [ Whipple ]
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. [ Landor ]
Living religion grows not by the doctrines, but by the narratives of the Bible. [ Jean Paul ]
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation. [ F. A. Durivage ]
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]
With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. [ Hamerton ]
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living. [ Carlyle ]
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living. [ William Shakespeare ]
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the most grateful incense to living worth. [ W. Mavor ]
When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too. [ From a Greek Tragedian ]
Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. [ John Ruskin ]
Representative government is justice organised, reason in living action, and morality armed. [ Royer Collard ]
To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]
Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers - each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. [ Horace Smith ]
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. [ William Mountford ]
Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men. [ Stedman ]
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it, when living. [ Beranger ]
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. [ Amer. Proverb ]
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living. [ Antisthenes ]
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. [ Xenophon ]
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. [ Bacon ]
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]
In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live. [ Fontanelle ]
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little, much beneath them. [ Addison ]
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. [ Joseph Story ]
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy dying, in which human happiness consists. [ Montaigne ]
Who is nobody? The man who lives for self, who has no affection for his own kin, and who lives a living he and knows it. [ James Ellis ]
A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. [ J. G. Holland ]
I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind. [ Channing ]
The soul has, living apart from its corporeal envelope, a profound habitual meditation which prepares it for a future life. [ Hippel ]
Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men. [ Ed ]
There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. [ Nelson Mandela ]
Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! [ Philip, King of Macedon ]
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. [ Chapin ]
Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. [ Colton ]
Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. [ Juv ]
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. [ Maximus ]
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. [ Percival ]
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. [ A. B. Alcott ]
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace. [ John Ruskin ]
Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. [ Colton ]
The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. [ Arthur Helps ]
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. [ Luther ]
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. [ Ruskin ]
Those who are conversant with books well know how often they mislead us when we have not a living monitor at hand to assist us in comparing practice with theory. [ Junius ]
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? [ Victor Hugo ]
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [ Pliny ]
Think of living!
Thy life, wert thou the pitifullest of all the sons of earth,
is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. [ Carlyle ]
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred. [ F. W. Robertson ]
As the air and manner of a gentleman can be acquired only by living habitually in the best society, so grace in composition must be attained by an habitual acquaintance with classical writers. [ Dugald Stewart ]
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. [ Hazlitt ]
Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. [ Carlyle ]
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]
I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]
How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies; this living source of all that moves the world! this temple of liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, so generous in love! [ Henry Giles ]
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels, - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and the world's good. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. [ Carlyle ]
The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]
It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]
Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]