Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: 'H':

Walter Hagen (2)

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

George Halas (2)

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Edward Everett Hale (3)

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Alex Haley (3)

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (3)

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Robert Hall (4)

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Joseph Hall (2)

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

William Halsey (2)

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Johann Georg Hamann (2)

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Alexander Hamilton (13)

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Dag Hammarskjold (13)

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Jupiter Hammon (2)

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Knut Hamsun (2)

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Tony Hancock (2)

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Lorraine Hansberry (3)

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Warren G. Harding (2)

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Thomas Hardy (14)

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Augustus Hare (5)

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Keith Haring (2)

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Sydney J. Harris (13)

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Thomas Harrison (2)

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Bret Harte (2)

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

John Hawkes (2)

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Helen Hayes (8)

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Rutherford B. Hayes (6)

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

William Hazlitt (38)

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Ben Hecht (3)

Love is a hole in the heart.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (9)

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Martin Heidegger (6)

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heinrich Heine (14)

God will forgive me that's his business.

Gustav Heinemann (6)

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

Robert A. Heinlein (14)

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Werner Heisenberg (2)

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Anna Held (5)

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Joseph Heller (2)

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Robert Heller (2)

Fear is excitement without breath.

Lillian Hellman (7)

People change and forget to tell each other.

Arthur Helps (6)

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Ernest Hemingway (35)

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Arthur Henderson (4)

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Jimi Hendrix (22)

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

O. Henry (6)

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Patrick Henry (10)

Give me liberty or give me death.

Matthew Henry (7)

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Jim Henson (4)

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Audrey Hepburn (14)

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Frank Herbert (8)

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

A. P. Herbert (2)

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

George Herbert (12)

Living well is the best revenge.

Oliver Herford (5)

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Don Herold (3)

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

James Herriot (4)

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (4)

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Hermann Hesse (10)

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

John Heywood (2)

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Gilbert Highet (2)

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Patricia Highsmith (5)

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Napoleon Hill (28)

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Paul Hindemith (2)

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Alfred Hitchcock (9)

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Adolf Hitler (2)

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Thomas Hobbes (8)

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Eric Hoffer (31)

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Abbie Hoffman (3)

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Hans Hofmann (2)

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Ben Hogan (4)

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Billie Holiday (5)

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Buddy Holly (2)

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

Ernest Holmes (8)

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Soichiro Honda (2)

Success is 99 percent failure.

Thomas Hood (2)

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Sidney Hook (3)

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Herbert Hoover (20)

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

J. Edgar Hoover (2)

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

Anthony Hope (2)

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Edward Hopper (8)

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Karen Horney (3)

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Rogers Hornsby (2)

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Douglas Horton (16)

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Alan Hovhaness (2)

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Vernon Howard (8)

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

E. W. Howe (23)

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Julia Ward Howe (3)

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Irving Howe (2)

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

William Dean Howells (3)

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Kin Hubbard (27)

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Elbert Hubbard (59)

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Langston Hughes (7)

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Charles Evans Hughes (4)

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Victor Hugo (73)

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Johan Huizinga (3)

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

David Hume (16)

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hubert H. Humphrey (16)

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

George M. Humphrey (2)

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

James Huneker (2)

All men of action are dreamers.

Leigh Hunt (6)

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Ellsworth Huntington (2)

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Zora Neale Hurston (12)

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Francis Hutcheson (2)

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Aldous Huxley (45)

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Thomas Huxley (33)

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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