Authors by Name: H
Walter Hagen (2)
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
421 thoughts regarding 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.
56 other quotes regarding anger
Alex Haley (3)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
86 other quotes about family
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (3)
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
204 thoughts regarding 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.
320 more wisdom & wit regarding death
William Halsey (2)
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
249 quotes regarding history
Johann Georg Hamann (2)
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
230 more quotes regarding poetry
Alexander Hamilton (13)
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
247 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Dag Hammarskjold (13)
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
320 views 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.
396 other thoughts about God
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.
247 quotes regarding aging
Tony Hancock (2)
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
68 wisdom & wit 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.
135 sayings regarding 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.
163 thoughts about friendship
Thomas Hardy (14)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
232 wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Augustus Hare (5)
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
240 sayings relating to faith
Keith Haring (2)
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
230 views regarding 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?'
247 other thoughts regarding aging
Thomas Harrison (2)
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
230 quotes regarding poetry
Bret Harte (2)
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
62 wisdom & wit regarding patience
John Hawkes (2)
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
174 more quotes about experience
Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
421 wisdom & wit 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.
86 other quotes about family
William Hazlitt (38)
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
232 other quotes regarding being alone
Martin Heidegger (6)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
232 quotes regarding being alone
Gustav Heinemann (6)
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
222 quotes about peace
Robert A. Heinlein (14)
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
199 thoughts regarding freedom
Werner Heisenberg (2)
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
410 wisdom & wit relating to nature
Anna Held (5)
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
232 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.
135 thoughts about dreams
Ernest Hemingway (35)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
247 quotes about aging
Arthur Henderson (4)
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
199 other thoughts relating to freedom
Jimi Hendrix (22)
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
421 other thoughts about art
O. Henry (6)
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
232 thoughts about being alone
Matthew Henry (7)
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
204 wisdom & wit relating to education
Jim Henson (4)
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
35 wisdom & wit relating to design
Audrey Hepburn (14)
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
232 more quotes about being alone
Frank Herbert (8)
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
56 more wisdom & wit about anger
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.
12 more thoughts about anniversary
Don Herold (3)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
420 thoughts about being good
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.
141 views about failure
Gilbert Highet (2)
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
91 quotes regarding 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.
232 quotes 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.
232 more sayings about being alone
Paul Hindemith (2)
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
150 other sayings about music
Alfred Hitchcock (9)
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
353 quotes relating to best
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.
320 other sayings regarding death
Eric Hoffer (31)
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
232 other views 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.
199 quotes about freedom
Hans Hofmann (2)
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
421 thoughts about 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.
419 more sayings about life
Billie Holiday (5)
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
198 more quotes about business
Buddy Holly (2)
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
212 quotes relating to beauty
Ernest Holmes (8)
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
240 quotes regarding faith
Sidney Hook (3)
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
204 wisdom & wit relating to education
Herbert Hoover (20)
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
198 thoughts about business
J. Edgar Hoover (2)
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
86 more quotes about family
Anthony Hope (2)
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
230 views regarding 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.
421 sayings regarding art
Karen Horney (3)
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
419 other views about 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 other views regarding 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.
247 quotes about aging
Vernon Howard (8)
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
212 thoughts regarding beauty
E. W. Howe (23)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
232 other quotes regarding being alone
Julia Ward Howe (3)
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
240 more views 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 quotes about imagination
William Dean Howells (3)
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
340 quotes regarding happiness
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.
232 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.
232 quotes 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.
212 views about beauty
Charles Evans Hughes (4)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
199 other quotes about freedom
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 quotes about attitudes
David Hume (16)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
212 other views about beauty
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.
232 other views about being alone
George M. Humphrey (2)
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
249 quotes regarding history
Ellsworth Huntington (2)
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
212 wisdom & wit relating to beauty
Zora Neale Hurston (12)
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
56 views about anger
Francis Hutcheson (2)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
340 views about 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.
247 wisdom & wit relating to aging
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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