Authors by Name: H
Walter Hagen (2)
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
425 views about art
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.
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Alex Haley (3)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton (3)
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
210 sayings relating to education
Robert Hall (4)
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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Joseph Hall (2)
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
323 thoughts regarding death
William Halsey (2)
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
251 quotes about history
Johann Georg Hamann (2)
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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Alexander Hamilton (13)
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
249 quotes regarding aging
Dag Hammarskjold (13)
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
323 thoughts regarding death
Jupiter Hammon (2)
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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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.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Tony Hancock (2)
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
69 quotes about sadness
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.
136 other quotes about dreams
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.
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Thomas Hardy (14)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Augustus Hare (5)
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
240 thoughts about faith
Keith Haring (2)
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
231 quotes about poetry
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?'
249 quotes about aging
Thomas Harrison (2)
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
231 quotes about poetry
Bret Harte (2)
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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John Hawkes (2)
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
174 more wisdom & wit about experience
Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
425 quotes about art
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.
87 other wisdom & wit about family
William Hazlitt (38)
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
233 thoughts about being alone
Martin Heidegger (6)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Gustav Heinemann (6)
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
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Robert A. Heinlein (14)
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
199 views about freedom
Werner Heisenberg (2)
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
420 wisdom & wit about nature
Anna Held (5)
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
233 more wisdom & wit about being alone
Joseph Heller (2)
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
136 wisdom & wit about dreams
Ernest Hemingway (35)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Arthur Henderson (4)
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
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Jimi Hendrix (22)
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
425 thoughts about art
O. Henry (6)
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
Jim Henson (4)
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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Audrey Hepburn (14)
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
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Frank Herbert (8)
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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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.
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Don Herold (3)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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James Herriot (4)
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
140 wisdom & wit about being funny
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.
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Hermann Hesse (10)
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Gilbert Highet (2)
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
91 sayings about 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.
233 views regarding being 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.
233 sayings regarding being alone
Paul Hindemith (2)
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
151 other thoughts about music
Alfred Hitchcock (9)
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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.
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Eric Hoffer (31)
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
233 wisdom & wit relating to being alone
Abbie Hoffman (3)
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Hans Hofmann (2)
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
425 views regarding art
Ben Hogan (4)
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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Billie Holiday (5)
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
198 thoughts about business
Buddy Holly (2)
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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Ernest Holmes (8)
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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Sidney Hook (3)
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
210 more quotes about education
Herbert Hoover (20)
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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J. Edgar Hoover (2)
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
87 wisdom & wit about family
Anthony Hope (2)
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
231 views about poetry
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.
425 more wisdom & wit relating to art
Karen Horney (3)
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
427 quotes regarding life
Rogers Hornsby (2)
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
50 thoughts about sports
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.
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Vernon Howard (8)
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
218 quotes regarding beauty
E. W. Howe (23)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
233 views about being alone
Julia Ward Howe (3)
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
240 quotes about faith
Irving Howe (2)
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
178 views regarding imagination
William Dean Howells (3)
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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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.
233 more quotes about being alone
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.
233 sayings about being alone
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.
218 views relating to beauty
Charles Evans Hughes (4)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
199 quotes about freedom
Victor Hugo (73)
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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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.
44 wisdom & wit about attitudes
David Hume (16)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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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.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
George M. Humphrey (2)
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
251 wisdom & wit about history
Ellsworth Huntington (2)
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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Zora Neale Hurston (12)
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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Francis Hutcheson (2)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
345 quotes regarding happiness
Aldous Huxley (45)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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