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Hadas, Moses

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Hailey, Kendall

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.

Halsey, William F.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

Hamilton, Jane

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Hampson, Thomas

Song is, after all, nothing more or less than the soundtrack for the human experience.

Hanover, Donna

Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right.

Hansberry, Lorraine

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Hanson, Virginia

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Harris, Corra

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Harris, Sydney J.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Harris, Sydney J.

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?

Harrison, Elizabeth

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Hart, Josephine

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

Hartley, L. P.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Haskins, Ernest

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Haskins, Henry S.

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Hathaway, Katharine Butler

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Havlicek, John

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is work to be done.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Hayes, Helen

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Hayes, Helen

If you rest, you rust.

Hayes, Helen

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hazlitt, William

As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence.

Hebrew Proverb

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Heide, Wilma Scott

I do not refer to myself as a "housewife" for the reason that I did not marry a house.

Hellman, Lillian

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world. We promise only to do our best and live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Hemingway, Ernest

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Hemingway, Ernest

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Hemingway, Mary

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Henderson, Sara

Don't wait for the light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

Henry, Patrick

Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Hepburn, Katharine

If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katherine

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Herford, Oliver

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.

Herold, Don

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Herrick, Robert

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

Heschel, Abraham Joshua

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.

Hesse, Hermann

When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us.

Hightower, Cullen

Love is what's left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

Hillis, Burton

There's a mighty big difference between good sound reasons, and reasons that sound good.

Hitchner, Earle

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Hodgeson, Ashley

Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.

Hoffer, Eric

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the 'learned' find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Hoffer, Eric

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Hoffer, Eric

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Hoffman, Babs

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.

Holiday, Billie

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Holliwell, Raymond

Desire creates the power.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Man has his will . . . woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Hoogtrerp, Daniel

Everybody has their ups and downs so I decided to have mine between good and great.

Hoover, Herbert

Wisdom ofttimes consists of knowing what to do next.

Hopper, Grace Murray

If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Horace

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Horney, Karen

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Howard, Moe

Only fools are positive.

Howatch, Susan

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Howe, Edgar Watson

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Howe, Edgar Watson

What a terrible time people have trying to have a good time!

Howe, Julia Ward

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most Herculean undertakings.

Hubbard, Elbert

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Hubbard, Elbert

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Hubbard, Frank McKinney

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Hubbard, Frank McKinney

So far I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

Hubbard, Kin

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Hubbard, Kin

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Hubbard, Kin

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Hubbard, Kin

Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, L. Ron

Life is a group effort. None survive alone.

Hudson, Virginia Cary

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Hugo, Victor

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables

There is always more misery in the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Huff, Sam

Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.

Humbert, Dr. Philip

What remarkable, extraordinary and amazing things will you do with this wild and wonderful miracle, your one and only life?

Hunt, Leigh

To receive a present handsomely and in the right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Hurst, Fannie

I would rather regret what I have done . . . than what I have not.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Hutton, William

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not.

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