
“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).
The Rover, Part II, Act V.
“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).
“And love … love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”
Not a Kerouac quote, but part of the text from a publicity campaign for the Beat Museum, San Francisco, composed by the advertising agency Gyro: http://paulacw.com/The-Beat-Museum
Misattributed
“876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 2, p. 66