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HABIT : Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
HABIT : The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
HABIT : Laws are never as effective as habits. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)
HABIT : Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe. (Charles Davenport, U.S. prominent eugenicist and biologist, 1866-1944)
HABIT : The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
HAIR : Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. (Greek proverb)
HANGING : We must all hang together, else we shall hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
HAPPINESS : Life is to be lived forward but understood backward. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)
HAPPINESS : Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Unknown Source)
HAPPINESS : I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger, U.S. writer, known for his widely-read novel, The Catcher in the Rye, 1919-2010)
HAPPINESS : Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it. (Unknown source)
HAPPINESS : Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet, 1672-1719)
HAPPINESS : The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is an inside job. (Unknown Source)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)
HAPPINESS : Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)
HAPPINESS : Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
HAPPINESS : man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D,)
HAPPINESS : Some pursue happiness, others create it. (Unknown source)
HAPPINESS : How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer, 85-43 BCE)
HAPPINESS : The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet, 1672-1719)
HAPPINESS : May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. (Eskimo proverb)
HAPPINESS : To live happily is an inward power of the soul. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)
HAPPINESS : Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. (Chuang-tzu—aka Zhuang Zhou—Chinese influential philosopher, 369-286 BCE)
HAPPINESS : Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
HAPPINESS : The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry, U.S. country music artist, Born 1959)
HAPPINESS : Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)
HAPPINESS : It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. (Victor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy—a form of existential analysis, 1905-1997)
HAPPINESS : If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
HAPPINESS : The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim, U.S. poet and novelist, 1882-1932)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. (Chinese proverb)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. (Chuang-tzu—aka Zhuang Zhou—Chinese influential philosopher, 369-286 BCE)
HAPPINESS : Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to. (Robert Brault, U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)
HAPPINESS : Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. (Hosea Ballou, U.S. Universalist clergyman, 1771-1852)
HAPPINESS : We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
HAPPINESS : Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
HAPPINESS : The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
HAPPINESS : Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. (Robert Burton, English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1577-1640)
HAPPINESS : I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
HAPPINESS : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown source)
HAPPINESS : Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
HAPPINESS : True happiness consists in making others happy. (Hindu proverb)
HAPPINESS : A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCE–AD 65)
HAPPINESS : Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)
HAPPINESS : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HAPPINESS : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. (Unknown source)
HAPPINESS : Happiness is the ability to recognize it. (Carolyn Wells, U.S. writer and poet, 1862-1942)
HARBORS : A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. (Sarah Orne Jewett, U.S. poet and novelist, 1849-1909)
HARDSHIP : Everyone is broken by life, but afterward many are strong in the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)
HARDSHIP : Everyone is broken by life, but afterward many are strong in the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway,U.S. author and journalist, 1899-1961Equality: The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)
HASTE : Make haste slowly. (Latin proverb)
HASTE : Haste makes waste. (English proverb)
HATE : From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)
HATE : People hate as they love, unreasonably. (William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist, 1811-1863)
HATE : People hate as they love, unreasonably. (William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist, 1811-1863Freedom: The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910Political Power: 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. (Robert A. Heinlein, U.S. science-fiction author, 1907-1988People: People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author, 1926-2004Theories: A good example is worth a thousand theories. (Stanley Fischer, U.S. and Israeli economist, Born 1943)
HATE - ANGER : I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is becausethey sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
HATRED : Hatred corrodes the container it's carried in. (Chinese proverb)
HATRED : I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. (Max Frisch, Swiss architect, playwright, and novelist, 1911-1991)
HATRED : Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
HATRED : A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. (Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)
HATRED : Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. (George Washington Carver, U.S. agricultural scientist, inventor, and professor, 1863-1941)
HATRED : People hate, as they love, unreasonably. (William Thackeray, British novelist and author, 1811-1863)
HATRED : Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
HATRED : We love without reason, and without reason we hate. (Jean-Francois Regnard, French comic poet, 1655-1709)
HATRED : Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. (Unknown Source)
HATRED : Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. (Ann Landers, U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)
HEALING : Healing happens when you get your thoughts, feelings, and actions into alignment. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
HEALTH : Every time I hear that dirty word 'exercise' I wash my mouth out with chocolate. (Unknown Source)
HEALTH : A drink a day keeps the shrink away. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
HEALTH : A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. (Spanish proverb)
HEALTH : Good health is not something we can buy, but it can be an extremely valuable savings account. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, and consultant)
HEALTH : For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. (Lily Tomlin, U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer, Born 1939)
HEALTH : He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. (Arabian proverb)
HEALTH : The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778) (Unknown Source)
HEALTH : Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. (Mary Baker Eddy, U.S. spiritual leader who established the Church of Christ, Scientist and founded The Christian Science Monitor, a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, 1821-1910)
HEALTH : The first wealth is health. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
HEARING : None so deaf as those that will not hear. (Matthew Henry, Welsh-British minister and author, 1662-1714)
HEART : The heart as eyes which the brain knows nothing of. (Charles H. Perkhurst, U.S. clergyman and social reformer who attacked the political corruption of New York City government that led to subsequent social and political reform, 1842-1933)
HEARTFELT : The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HEAVEN : In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
HEIRS : When leaving an inheritance to one's heirs, the perfect amount is enough money so they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. (Warren Buffet, U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)
HELL : Hell is truth seen too late. (Unknown source)
HELPING : Sometime helping someone actually harms them because it deprives them of learning their lesson. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
HEROES : Some heroes are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Unknown Source)
HEROES : It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. (Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian statesman who served as Governor-President of Hungary during the 1848-49 revolution, 1802-1894)
HEROES : The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HEROES - COMMONERS : The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HEROISM : Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself. (John McCain III, U.S. politician and naval officer who served 5 terms in the U.S. Senate, 1936-2018)
HIGH ROAD : You never go wrong when you take the high road - it's less crowded up there. (Gayle King, U.S. television personality, journalist, and author, Born 1954)
HINDSIGHT : It could've been. (Unknown source)
HISTORIANS : The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies. (J.A. Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)
HISTORIANS : Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
HISTORIOGRAPHY : The past is never dead. It's not even past. 897-1962 (William Faulkner, U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)
HISTORY : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher and science professor, 1902-1994)
HISTORY : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown source)
HISTORY : It is a sad world that exists only in the present, unaware of the long procession that brought us here. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : Study the past if you divine the future. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : There is no one “history.” Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past. (Unknown source)
HISTORY : What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
HISTORY : What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader, 1769-1821Pedestal: A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, social and political activist, Born 1934Offensiveness: Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650Self-actualization: if one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist and professor, 1908-1970)
HISTORY : Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)
HISTORY : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one�s country; the shame lies in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)
HISTORY : What is history but a fable agreed upon? (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Unknown Source)
HISTORY : History is a novel whose author is the people. (Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright, and novelist, 1797-1863)
HISTORY : History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
HISTORY : History doesn't always repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
HISTORY : History is a novel whose author is the people. (Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright, and novelist, 1797-1863)
HISTORY : Study the past if you divine the future. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
HISTORY : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher and science professor, 1902-1994)
HISTORY : A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the 'truth.' (Mao Zedong, Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)
HISTORY : Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)
HISTORY : History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment. (Shelby Foote, U.S. historian and novelist who wrote a three-volume history of the American Civil War, 1916-205)
HISTORY : The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ernest Dimnet, French priest, writer, and lecturer, 1866-1954)
HISTORY : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened. (Gerald White Johnson, U.S. historian, journalist, novelist, editor, 1880-1980)
HISTORY : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
HISTORY : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past. (Unknown source)
HISTORY : Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, and social critic who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)
HISTORY : There is no shame in accepting one's mistakes; the shame is in concealing one's mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)
HISTORY : History is written by the victors. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
HISTORY : A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the �truth.� (Mao Zedong, Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)
HISTORY : Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. (Proverb)
HISTORY : The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
HISTORY : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
HISTORY : The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. (Mian Kundera, Czech-born French writer, Born 1829)
HISTORY : History is written by the victors. (Walter Benjamin, German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, 1892-1940)
HISTORY : There is no shame in accepting one�s mistakes; the shame is in concealing one�s mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)
HOME : A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller, U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)
HONESTY : The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. (Groucho Marx, U.S. writer, comedian, stage, film and television star, 1890-1977)
HONOR : Honor grows from qualms. (Unknown Source)
HONOR : Honor grows from qualms. (John Leonard, U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)
HOPE : Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)
HOPE : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
HOPE : We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
HOPE : Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. (Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and Civil Rights Activist, 1925-1968)
HOPE : There never was night that had no morn. (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English poet and novelist, 1826-1887)
HOPE : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
HOPE : Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, as opposed to the necessity of the probable. (Moses Maimonides, Spanish Sephardic Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, astronomer, jurist, and physician who worked in Egypt and Morocco, c. 1135-1204)
HOPE : When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Unknown source)
HOPE : He who does not hope to win has already lost. (Jose Joaquin Olmedo, President of Ecuador, 1780-1847)
HOPE : Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
HOPE : We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
HOPE : A leader is a dealer in hope. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
HOPE : The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it. (Harvey Milk, U.S. politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, 1930-1978)
HOPE : Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. (Ouida [pseudonym for Maria Louise Rame] English novelist, 1838-1909)
HOPE : When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
HOPE : Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. (Unknown source)
HOPE : There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. (Vauvenargues, French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)
HOPE : Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
HOPE : No hope, no action. (Peter Levi, British poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, academic, and prolific reviewer and critic, 1931-2000)
HOPE : Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. (William Sloane Coffin, U.S. Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006)
HOPE : Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality. (L.J. Cardinal Suenens, Belgian Catholic Cardinal (1904-1996)
HOPE : Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. (Unknown source)
HOPE : The miserable have no medicine but hope. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
HOPE : Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
HOPE : Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. (Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)
HOPE : Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. (Julia Dorr, U.S. author and poet, 1825-1913)
HOPE : Hope is patience with the lamp lit. (Tertullian, African Berber Christian author who has been called “the founder of Western theology”, 160 A.D.-220 A.D.)
HOPE : There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. (Baruch Spinoza, Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, 1632-1677)
HOPE : I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
HOPE : One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)
HOPE : Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. (Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian, 1771-1832)
HOPE : Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. (Lin Yutang, Hokkien, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)
HOPE : Hope lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness. (Unknown source)
HOPE : The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
HOPE : Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. (Ambrose Bierce, U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)
HOPE : No night but hath its morn. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
HOPE : Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. (Unknown source)
HOPE : Hope springs eternal in the human breast. (Alexander Pope, English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)
HOPE : Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. (the Bible)
HOPE : None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
HOPES - FEARS : We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
HOPES - FEARS : Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, as opposed to the necessity of the probable. (Moses Maimonides, Spanish Sephardic Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, astronomer, jurist, and physician who worked in Egypt and Morocco, c. 1135-1204)
HORSEPOWER : Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. (Unknown source)
HOSPITALITY : For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. (Alexander Pope, English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)
HOUSE : A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller, U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)
HOUSES : A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller, U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT : The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. (Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright, 1933-1983)
HUMAN INTERACTION : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
HUMAN INTERACTION : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
HUMAN INTERACTION : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Unknown Source)
HUMAN NATURE : Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
HUMANENESS : On the outer limits of cruelty humanity begins. (Mantra of the Syrian Civil Defense Squad of volunteer rescue workers)
HUMANITY : Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HUMANITY : The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
HUMANITY : The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)
HUMANITY : I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)
HUMANITY : I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me. (Terence, Roman playwright, of Berber descent, 195-159 B.C.E)
HUMANITY : Our true nationality is mankind. (H.G. Wells, English writer in many genres, but is now best remembered as a “father of science fiction,” 1866-1946)
HUMANITY : People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch thingshappen, and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown source)
HUMANITY : Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. (Unknown Source)
HUMANITY : We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
HUMANITY : Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Juvenal, Roman poet active in the late first and early second century A.D.)
HUMANITY : My humanity is tied to your humanity. (African Proverb)
HUMANITY : If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. (Mayan philosophy)
HUMANITY : It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! (George Gamow, Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1904-1968)
HUMANITY : An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. (Martin Luther, German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)
HUMANITY : A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. (English proverb)
HUMANITY : I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)
HUMANITY : The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. (Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian diplomat, Nobel laureate, Born 1942)
HUMANITY : If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. (John Brunner, British write of science fiction novels, 1934-1995)
HUMANITY : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 1876-1967)
HUMANITY : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
HUMANITY : The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence. (Unknown Source)
HUMANITY : I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
HUMANKIND : People neglect their own fields and go weed the fields of others. (Mencius, Chinese Confucian philosopher, 372 - 289 BCE)
HUMANKIND : There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen: and those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown source)
HUMANKIND : Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. (Benjamin Spock, U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998)
HUMANS : It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! (George Gamow, Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1904-1968)
HUMILITY : When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered. (Arthur Bryant, English historian and columnist, 1899-1985)
HUMILITY : A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
HUMILITY : Those who travel the high road of humility . . . are not bothered by heavy traffic. (Alan Simpson, U.S. politician, born 1931)
HUMILITY : Life is a long lesson in humility. (Unknown Source)
HUMILITY : It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. (Judith Martin [AKA Miss Manners], U.S. journalist, author, and etiquette authority, Born 1938)
HUMILITY : Life is a long lesson in humility. (James M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)
HUMOR : Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. (Virginia Wolff, English modernist writer, 1882-1941)
HUMOR : The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. (Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)
HUMOR : Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov, British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter, and diploma, 1921-2004)
HUMOR : He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. (The Koran)
HUMOR : Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge, Danish comedian and pianist, 1909-2000)
HUMOR : Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. (Unknown source)
HUMOR : He who laughs, lasts. (Unknown source)
HUMOR : Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life. (Alan Simpson, U.S. politician, born 1931)
HUMOR : A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. (Unknown Source)
HUMOR : I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, and consultant)
HUMOR : A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
HUMOR : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (Unknown Source)
HUMOR : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (James Thurber, U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, 1894-1961)
HUMOR : Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
HUNGER : A hungry man is not a free man. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)
HUNGER : If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves. (Hindu proverb)
HYPOCCRISY : For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)