Quotes D - H (2/4)
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
- Edward Dahlberg
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days.
An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to
make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- the 14th Dalai Lama, interview in "TIME", 11 April 1988
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time
of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
- Dante
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
- Clarence Darrow, Interview, April 1936
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces
the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
- Sir Francis Darwin, 1914
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is,
in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
Middle age is youth without it's levity. And old age without decay.
- Daniel Defoe
There is no such thing as a nonracial society
in a multiracial country.
- F. W. de Klerk, President of South Africa, in "Time", 11 September 1989
There are a million ways to lose a work day,
but not even a single way to get one back.
- Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, "Peopleware", 1987
People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have
a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that
there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity.
- Hugo Demartini, in "Contemporary Artists", 1977
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly
and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement, in "Newsweek", 1959
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
- Arthur Dent
Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
- Bo Diddley
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them
to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby" 1844
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones
from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne, "Devotions", 1624
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
- John Donne, "Elegy II, The Anagram"
No man is an island, entire of it self.
- John Donne, "Devotions"
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself,
but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear", 1914
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
- Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that
which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, 1899
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant, in "National Enquirer", 1980
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do
and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant, in "Reader's Digest", 1972
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is,
the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
- Clint Eastwood
A man's got to know his limitations.
- Clint Eastwood in "Magnum Force", 1973
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban, 1970
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison, "Life", 1932
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Alva Edison, "Life", 1932
To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- Paul Ehrlich, in "The Farmers Almanac, 1978"
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein, "Cosmic Religion"
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
God may be subtle. But He is not malicious.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war
fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people
of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without;
one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years;
suspenders are superfluous.
- Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and
the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Albert Einstein, "Ideas and Opinions", 1954
Politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein, "What I Believe", 1930
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein, "Life", 1950
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably
by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect
for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which
cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase
of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the USA", 1921
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has
merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signls here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days
government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men", 1925
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines
what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
- Havelock Ellis, "Little Essays of Love and Virtue", 1922
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...
had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
- Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life", 1860
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1871
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life", 1860
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journal", May 1849
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better
mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the
world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;
they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race is that it will die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journal", 20 December 1822
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
- English proverb
A wise man first determines what is within his control;
all else is then irrelevant.
- Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth
so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Scitum est inter caecos luscumregnare posse.
(It is well known that among the blind the one-eyed man is king.)
- Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus
When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erd"s
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way
that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard, in "The Observer", 1958
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman
is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- John Erskine
He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do
with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
- M. C. Escher
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- M. C. Escher
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
- Ethiopian proverb
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
- Euripides
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
- Euripides
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man.
- Dame Edith Evans
The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
- Harold Evans, "Pictures on a Page", 1978
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
- David Everett
Passions are fashions.
- Clifton Fadiman
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.
You see more in you than there was before.
- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play", 1957
The people came to realize that wealth is not the fruit of
labour but the result of organized protected robbery.
- Frantz Fanon
The only accident [at Three Mile Island] is that this thing leaked out.
You could have avoided this whole thing by not saying anything.
- Craig Faust (control-room operator at TMI), 1979, quoted from "Loose Talk"
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks
and transporting goods on our backs.
- William Feather
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman, "Understanding Philosophy", 1973
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
- Ma Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa 1920)
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
- Fanny Fern, "Willis Parton"
Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier
Men just don't seem to jump off the bridge for big reasons;
they usually do so for little ones.
- W. H. Ferry
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive
seems sufficient reason.
- Joanna Field
Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
- W. C. Fields
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
- W. C. Fields
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation,
the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The victor belongs to the spoils.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
- Errol Flynn
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
- Marshal Foch, 1911
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
One of the greatest labour-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
- Vincent T. Foss
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor,
to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
I am responsible only to God and history.
- Francisco Franco
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1789
I have found little that is good about human beings.
In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
- Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Sigmund Freud
Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
- Egon Friedell
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride.
Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
- Fred Friendly, 1980
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
- Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather
and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost
The only way round is through.
- Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that
more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost
The world is full of willing people;
some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 1923
There is nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
- Robert Frost
We compound our suffering by victimising each other.
- Athol Fugard, in "The Observer", 1971
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
- Robert Fulghum
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree.
It's what you do with your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller, in "Time", 16 January 1989
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no
solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There
are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight
lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going only by
setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted in "Contemporary Architects", 1980
The scalded cat fears even cold water.
- Thomas Fuller
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is
almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am a marvellous housekeeper.
Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
Once the flame begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher.
- Peter Gabriel, "Biko"
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Saturday Evening Post", 1968
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Time", 1961
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.
There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher
I could prove God statistically.
- George Gallup
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Gandhi
He who awaits much can expect little.
- Gabriel Garca M rquez,
"El Coronel no Tiene quien le Escriba"
Si Dios no hubiera descansado el domingo
habra tenido tiempo de terminar el mundo.
(If God hadn't rested on Sunday,
He would have had time to finish the world.)
- Gabriel Garca M rquez, "Los Funerales de Mam Grande", 1974
No creo en Dios, pero le tengo miedo.
(I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.)
- Gabriel Garca M rquez, "El Amor en los Tiempos de Clera", 1985
The ultimate goal of the educational system is
to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
- John W. Gardner
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test,
all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
- Stanley Garn
On ne peut pas rassembler a froid un pays
qui compte 265 specialites de fromages.
(How do you govern a country which has 265 different kinds of cheese?)
- Charles De Gaulle
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
- Charles de Gaulle, 1967
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
- David Lloyd George
If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty
If you owe the bank 100, that's your problem.
If you owe the bank 100 million, that's the bank's problem.
- John Paul Getty:
Ever it has been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Andr Gide
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over
and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
- Andr Gide
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
- Jean Giraudoux
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
- Arnold Glasow
All things are only transitory.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate
into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,
read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible,
speak a few reasonable words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
- Justice Arthur Goldberg
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
- James Goldsmith
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography
until after they're dead.
- Samuel Goldwyn
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
- Samuel Goldwyn
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody
to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions,
nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, UN address, 7 December 1988
The market is not an invention of capitalism.
It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, 8 June 1990
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
- Goya
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
- Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647
Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath twenty-eight alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one.
- Richard Grafton, 1562
I think when a person has been found guilty of rape
he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.
- Billy Graham, 1974
I improve on misquotation.
- Cary Grant
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
- The Grateful Dead
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude
without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are,
has probably pervaded all ages.
- Horace Greeley, "The American Conflict", 1864-1866
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
- Motto of the Green Berets
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene, 1981
By the act of marriage you endorse all the ancient and dead values.
You endorse things like monogamy. Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
- Germaine Greer
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
- Charles H. Grosvenor
It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
- Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd"
O words of love, O words divine!
The silver thought, the golden line!
Of all men's words, there's none so fine,
As these three words: 'I've got mine!'
- Hagar the Horrible
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated
ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
- Alexander Haig
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale, 22 September 1776
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill,
but he will do very few things.
- George, Lord Halifax
There are some who start their retirement
long before they stop working.
- Robert Half
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alex Hamilton, "The Listener", 1978
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
- R. W. Hamming, "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers", 1973
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
- Fridtjof Hansen
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gets loose fum de jug.
- Joel C. Harris, "Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs"
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sydney Harris
In times like these, it is helpful to remember
that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over,
carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia,
I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun.
- Hawkeye, "MASH"
Not only does God play dice, but ... he sometimes
throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen Hawking
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
- Helen Hayes
The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
- John W. Hazard, "Changing Times" 1957
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or
difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
- William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
- William Hazlitt
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained
with the greatest violence.
- Hebrew Proverb
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier.
(God will forgive me. It's his job.)
- Heinrich Heine
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
Everything to excess. To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
- Robert Heinlein, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does
what it's supposed to do.
- Robert Heinlein
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is
that science requires reasoning while those other subjects
merely require scholarship.
- Robert Heinlein
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse
is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about
space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
- Robert Heinlein
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity,
and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
All good books are alike in that they are truer
than if they had really happened.
- Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived
and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
- Ernest Hemingway, in "Sunday Times", 1966
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery?
- Patrick Henry
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
But beautiful women don't need to know about men.
It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
- Katherine Hepburn
All is flux, nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end.
It all depends upon where the observer is standing.
- Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert, "Dune", 1965
Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
- Oliver Herford
Only the young die good.
- Oliver Herford
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Herodotus
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of
fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus
Racism is man's gravest threat to man -
the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Many people have played themselves to death.
Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death.
Nobody ever thought himself to death.
- Gilbert Highet
There's nothing in the middle of the road
but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
- Jim Hightower, in "Time", 3 April 1989
There is nothing women hate so much as to see men selfishly
enjoying themselves without the solace of feminine society.
- Katharine Tynan Hinkson
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
- Hippocrates
A good film is when the price of the dinner,
the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock, in "The Observer", 1960
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is
and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
- Alfred Hitchcock, 1966
In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory.
- Adolf Hitler
Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers in Europe.
- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
The day of individual happiness has passed.
- Adolf Hitler
The great masses of the people ... will more easily
fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
- Adolf Hitler
We stand for the maintenance of private property.
- Adolf Hitler
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler
When I was young, my position [on churches] was: dynamite.
It was only later that I realized that this sort of thing
cannot be rushed. It must rot away like a diseased member.
- Adolf Hitler
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Eric Hoffer, in "The Faber Book of Aphorisms", 1964
Stay away from needle drugs.
Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
- Abbie Hoffman, "Steal this Book"
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman
The best way I know of to win an argument is
to start by being in the right.
- Quentin Hogg
Dignity is like a top hat.
Neither is very much use when you are standing on it.
- Chistopher Hollis
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover
Many persons have left their jobs for the more
profitable one of selling apples.
- Herbert Hoover, 1931
Justice is incidental to law and order.
- J. Edgar Hoover
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!
(Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)
- Horace
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.)
- Horace
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
- Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge,
and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Marina Horner
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- William Dean Howells
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
- Elbert Hubbard
An optimist is a fellow who believes
what's going to be will be postponed.
- Kin Hubbard
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
- Kin Hubbard
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a
conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard
If there is anything a public servant hates to do
it's something for the public.
- Kin Hubbard
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
- Kin Hubbard, "Abe Martin's Broadcast", 1930
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing,
it's the money.
- Kin Hubbard
If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.
- L. Ron Hubbard
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard, and dying is mean -
so get yourself a little loving in between.
- Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- Langston Hughes
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Habit is the nursery of errors.
- Victor Hugo
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1965
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
- Fannie Hurst
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,
and undernourishment.
- Robert Hutchins, "Great Books" 1954
Experience is not what happens to you.
It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley, in "Reader's Digest", 1956
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more
efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", 1956
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet
is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is
to be proved right.
- Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World Revisited", 1956
