We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted† It is about time that we pulled our fingers out† The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

-Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of
  Speech to British industrialists, London,17 Oct.

There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for iver, and onlydribbleyourmind out by thesly, likea leaky barrel.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Mrs Poyser.  Adam Bede, ch.32.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

   Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Murder in the Cathedral, pt.1.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'

-Gibbons, Orlando
  TheFirst Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.3.

Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin, Don't let the old folks know.

-Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)
  'Don't  Tell My Mother I'm Living in Sin'.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^9  The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

C'est une chose anormale de vivre. Living is abnormal.

-Ionesco, Euge' n e
  Rhinoce¤  ros, act1.

   [Prince Charles] is entitled to be as underwhelmed by the prospect of reigning overa fourth-class nation as the rest of us are by the prospect of living in it.

-Jay, Peter
  Of Prince Charles. In the London Illustrated News,  Apr.

Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage. And therefore the reputation for honesty must first be gotten; which cannot be but by living well. A good life is a main argument.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

His soul swooned slowlyas he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descentoftheir lastend, uponall theliving and the dead.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Dubliners,'The Dead'.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

-Kerr,Jean ne¤  e  Collins
  Poor Richard, act1.

The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.

-Kunitz, StanleyJasspon
  In the NewYork Times,11 Mar.

The virtues common to good living and good poetry seem to me not so much matters of what used to be called 'virtue'as, above all, of sane vitality.

-Lucas, F(rank) L(awrence)
  The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal, ch.1.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.

-Stockton
  In the Manchester Guardian,18 Dec.

Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.