H., Dr. James : Chance favors those in motion.
Hafiz, Khajeh : There are so many gifts still unopened from the day of your birth.
Haldeman, H.R. : Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s hard to get it back in.
Hale, Edward Everett : I am only one, / But still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything, / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Hallesby, O. : The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
Halsey, Margaret : In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Hammarskjold, Dag : It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Hamming, Richard : The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Hampton, Christopher : Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Hanh, Thich Nhat : We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Liberty without responsibility is not true liberty.
Hansberry, Lorraine : The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Hansberry, Lorraine : Words are loaded pistols. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Fun: I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. actress, 1907-2003Language: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951Exceptionalism: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Harburg, E.Y. : The World would be a safer place, If someone had a plan: Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man.
Hardy, Thomas : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Hardy, Thomas : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
Hardy, Thomas : The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Harper, Lucille S. : The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Harris, Sydney J. : We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . we have stopped saying It got lost, and say I lost it.
Harris, Joel Chandler : You can hide the fire, but what are you going to do to rid the smoke?
Harris, Jose N. : Falling down is part of life; getting back up is living.
Harrison, George : Heaven and hell is right now . . . You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
Haskell, Molly : The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
Haskins, Henry S. : Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.
Haskins, Henry S. : The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Haskins, Henry S. : Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.
Haskins, Henry S. : The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.
Haskins, Henry S. : An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.
Hastings, Lewis : The possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
Havel, Vaclav : Seek and keep the company of those who are looking for the truth, and runaway from those who have found it.
Havel, Vaclav : Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Hawking, Stephen : We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel : No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel : Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel : Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Hay, John : The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
Haydon, A. Eustace : Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Hayes, Rutherford B. : He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Hayes, Rutherford B. : He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Hayes, Rutherford B. : The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Hazlitt, William : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Hazlitt, William : Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Hazlitt, William : To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Hazlitt, William : As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Hazlitt, William : Words are like money ... it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.
Hazlitt, William : Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Hazlitt, William : As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Hazlitt, William : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Hector, Saki [aka : A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Hedge, H.F. : Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Heine, Heinrich : Music is almost a miracle, for it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
Heinlein, Robert A. : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Heinlein, Robert : In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it.
Hellman, Lillian : People change and forget to tell each other.
Hellman, Lillian : Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Helps, Arthur : If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Helps, Arthur : Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Helvetius, Claude Adrien : To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is todeclare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Hemingway, Ernest : Everyone is broken by life, but afterward many are strong in the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest : Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Hemingway, Ernest : As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
Hemingway, Ernest : There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else.
Hemingway, Ernest : There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Hemingway, Ernest : There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Hendrix, Jimi : When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Henley, William E. : I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Henley, W.E. : I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Henri, Jean Baptiste : Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Henry, Will : What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?
Henry, Patrick : Give me liberty, or give me death.
Henry, Patrick : I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Henry, Patrick : The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrumentfor the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Henry, O. : Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Henry, Matthew : None so deaf as those that will not hear.
Hensch, Takao : The habits we form from childhood make no small difference. They make all the difference.
Hepburn, Katharine : I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Hepburn, Katharine : If men and women really suit each other . . . they should live next door---and just visit now and then.
Herbert, George Edward : You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
Herbert, George : Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Herbert, George : You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
Herbert, George Edward : Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.
Herbert, George Edward : A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Herold, Don : There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.
Herold, Don : Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Hesburgh, Theodore : The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Hightower, Cullen : The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Hill, James B. : The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.
Hillesum, Etty : That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
Hillyer, Robert : Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Hitchens, Christopher : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.
Hitchens, Christopher : What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Hitler, Adolf : How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Hobbes, Thomas : Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Hoffer, Eric : To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Hoffer, Eric : The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Hoffer, Eric : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Hoffer, Eric : Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Hoffer, Eric : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Hoffer, Eric : Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Hoffer, Eric : Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Hoffer, Eric : However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Hoffer, Eric : Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
Hoffer, Eric : Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Holderlin, Friedrich : What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Holland, Josiah G. : God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Holmes, Oliver W. : Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver W. : Law’s history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Holmes, Oliver W. : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Holmes, John Hughes : The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Holmes, Oliver W. : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
Holmes, Oliver W. : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Holmes, Oliver W. : Bigotry is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Holmes, Oliver W. : I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Holmes, Oliver W. : The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Holmes, Oliver W. : Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences.
Holmes, John Andrew : Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
Holmes, Oliver W. : The mind of a bigot is likened to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell : Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.
Honda, Soichire : I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.
Hoover, Herbert : Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Hopper, Edward : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Horder, Thomas : It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Horn, Lena : It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.
Horn, Lena : It�s not the load that breaks you down; it�s the way you carry it.
Horne, Lena : It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Horney, Karen : Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Howe, Edgar Watson : There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Howe, Edgar Watson : Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
Howe, Edgar Watson : A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Hubbard, Elbert : To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Kin : Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Hubbard, Elbert : One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. But no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Hubbard, Elbert : No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Hubbard, Kin : The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Hubbard, Elbert : He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Kin : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag.
Huffington, Arianna : Life is a dance between making it happen . . . and letting it happen.
Hughes, Charles Evans : A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Hughes, Charles Evans : The U.S. is under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
Hughes, J. B. : If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.
Hugo, Victor : No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Hugo, Victor : He who opens a school door, closes a prison door.
Hugo, Victor : When you open a school, you close a jail.
Hugo, Victor : When you open a school, you close a jail.
Hugo, Victor : Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
Hugo, Victor : Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Hugo, Victor : Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Hugo, Victor : Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Hugo, Victor : Mirrors - those revealers of the truth - are hated; but that does not prevent them from being of use.
Hugo, Victor : Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Hulbert, Harold S. : Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Hull, Raymond : He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Humboldt, William Von : It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
Humes, James : 'Vice-President' is the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.
Humphrey, Muriel : A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.
Hunt, Leigh : The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Hunt, Leigh : Patience and gentleness is power.
Hutcheson, Francis : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Hutchins, Robert : The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Hutchins, Robert : Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Huxley, Aldous : After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous : Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
Huxley, Aldous : After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them.
Huxley, Aldous : There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Huxley, Thomas : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Huxley, Aldous : Experience teaches only the teachable.
Huxley, Aldous : Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
