Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

-More, SirThomas
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

It isnot living, but living well, whichwe oughttoconsider most important.

-Plato
Crito, 48b (translated by H North Fowler,1923).

Thank Heaven! the crisisö The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at lastö And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'ForAnnie'.

   Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.13^16.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

-Rowland, Helen
  Reflections of a Bachelor Girl.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

-Self,Will
The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782

-Shelley, Mary Godwin
  Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein, ch.10.

How little room Do we take up in death, that, living know No bounds?

-Shirley,James
  TheWedding, act 4, sc.4.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

-Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
  In the Listener,15 Feb.

Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'Different Living'.

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  Journal entry, 4 Jan.

As to woman's subjection†it is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.1, ch.1,'Comments on Genesis'.

Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.

-Stein, Gertrude
  The Making of Americans, ch.5.

Living next to you is like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

-Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Of the US. Speech, National Press Club,Washington DC, 25 Mar. Quoted in Lawrence Martin The Presidents and the Prime Ministers (1982).

On doit des e¤  gards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la ve¤  rite¤  . We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
'Premi e' re Lettre sur ¼dipe'. In ¼uvres, vol.1 (published1785).

I'm less than two months old and I'm tired of living.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  Wilbur the pig. Charlotte'sWeb, ch.3.

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

-William of Poitiers   11c.
c.1071 Of theBattle of Hastings,14 Oct1066. Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum (edited by R Foreville,1952).

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Matchmaker, act1.