Jake liked his
women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet
yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
Jonathan S. Haas
After all, if one's
imagination readily grants full human rights to future AI programs, robots,
dolphins, and extraterrestrial aliens, mere color and gender can't seem very
important any more.
Hacker's Dictionary
This book fills a
much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
I found out
something really strange that evening. No matter how terrible something is, no
matter if your own world is crumbling into little pieces, the rest of life goes
on as if nothing at all were happening.
Irwin Hadley
from the book “Abby, My Love”
It's hard to stay anonymous
in the spotlight. If you don't want strangers to recognize you in public, don't
perform on stage or in front of a camera in the first place. Either stay in the
shadows or stop complaining about the fame you asked for.
Duane Alan Hahn
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
Alexander Haig (b. 1924) American
politician TV interview (1983)
INTERVIEWER: What has the study of biology taught you
about the Creator, Dr. Haldane?
HALDANE: I'm not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond
of beetles.
J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English
geneticist
Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.
J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English
geneticist
A woman has two
smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words
are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it
of a mother’s love.
Thomas C. Haliburton
Why are they so
afraid of a few hundred thousand people with assault weapons?
Jim Hamblin (contemp.) member of
the "Texas Constitutional Militia"
...that was the
first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned
about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing,
and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in
your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its
choice to be there--is gone.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist Dragonsbane
They said that dragons did
not entrap with lies but with the truth, and she knew he had read accurately
the desire of her soul.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist Dragonsbane
Grief closed her throat, the
grief of roads untaken, of doors not opened, of songs unsung -- the human grief
of choice.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist Dragonsbane
Having so little, we share
among ourselves to make any of it worth having. We do what we do because the
consequences of not caring enough to do it would be worse.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist Dragonsbane
Defeat will only make us
dead, not honourable.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist
God protect us from what we
may one day get used to.
Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) American novelist
There are 10,000 books in my
library, and it will keep on growing until I die. If I had not picked up this
habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I
would not be richer.
Pete Hamill
DOLPH: It’s not the fur or the fangs that
make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it’s just where you draw the line.
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer Blue Moon (1998)
I didn't question God's wisdom. I figured He knew what He was doing, and
if He didn't, I really didn't want to know.
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer Burnt Offerings (1998)
I guess I don't entirely
trust God. I never doubt Him, but His motives are too beyond me. Through a
glass darkly and all that. Just once I'd like to see through the damn glass
clearly.
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer Bloody Bones
There's something about a gun just lying around…that tempts people. There
is an almost physical itch to pick it up, point it, go bang-bang. You
either make a gun safe, unloaded or locked up, or you keep it on your body
where you can control it. Those are the rules. Deviating from the
rules is what lets eight-year-old kids blow the heads off their baby sisters.
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer Burnt
Offerings (1998)
There had to be a circle of
Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the
lower circles.
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer Bloody Bones
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is
possible — not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish
statesman, UN Secretary-General
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish
statesman, UN Secretary-General
Markings (1951)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is
right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind
of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their
interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that
not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit
of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has
never learned but never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the
least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.
Learned Hand (1872-1961) American
jurist Speech, "I
Am an American Day,"
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon
constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me,
these are false hopes.
Learned Hand (1872-1961) American
jurist Speech,
"I Am an American Day,"
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you
that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that
decency will somehow triumph in the end.
Lise Hand (contemp.) British
journalist Describing
the late Irish journalist Veronica Guerin
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By
definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) British
mathematician
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
'Come see the oxen kneel . . .'
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English
novelist, poet
"Oxen"
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harrington (1561-1612) English
courtier and writer "Of
Treason"
The problem with the postmodern idea that "truth is subjective"
is the way most of its adherents (the louder ones, anyway) seem to think that
means reality -- objective reality, where atoms are combined to form certain
shapes and therefore are not combined to form certain other shapes -- is
therefore as fungible as their own mushy thought processes. Wiser minds know
that facts are facts, even if imperfect humans cannot perceive them with
100-percent accuracy and therefore misinterpret or deny them. That's why the
goal should be to get as close to the truth as possible, not to just throw up
one's hands and claim that there mustn't be any truth to get close to.
Andrea Harris (contemp.) "The Spleenville
Journal" (
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage
and act accordingly.
Corra Harris (1869-1935) American
author [nee White]
If we stop caring about our heroes, we stop caring about what they died
for.
Ralph Harris
If you want to know what a man's character is really like, don't ask him
to tell you his creed or his code (for everyone has a prettified public version
of these), but ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero
worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave
an escape-hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your
side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
The surest indication of a mediocre mind is its belief that everything
can be explained.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until
we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have
stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) Anglo-American
columnist, journalist, author
Human beings of
all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature
of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics
and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge
is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not
knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for
being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same
reason.
Edward Harrison (contemp.)
Anglo-American cosmologist, astrophysicist
New Scientist, "The
Uncertainty of Knowledge" (
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys
typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete
works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Dr. Ian Hart (contemp.) British
media professor, film producer
Univ. of Hong Kong ITForum, Paper
#20, "Between the Idea and Reality … the Case for Qualitative
Research" (1997)
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Josephine Hart (b. 1942)
Irish-English author
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you
cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Jan de Hartog (b. 1914) Dutch
author and playwright [pseud. F. R. Eckman]
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times
like these.
Paul Harvey (b. 1918) American
commentator and journalist [b. P. H. Aurandt]
For a woman there
is nothing more erotic than being understood.
Hope is
definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that
something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel (b. 1936) Czech
poet, politician
Death was an
indifferent gambler. Sometimes, he allowed but one throw of the dice. And
sometimes many. He was content to let the dice fall as they may, because no
matter how the game progressed, in the end, he would always be the only one
left standing at the table.
Simon Hawke
( ) The
Iron Throne
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of
rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes
a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing
a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a
universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother
of existing?
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) English
physicist, author A Brief History of Time (1988)
I have noticed
even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to
change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) English
physicist, author
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your
grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American
writer
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be
going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt;
and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to
be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American
writer
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and
another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be
the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American
writer The Scarlet Letter
In a very real
sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who
cannot or will not read.... It is not true that we have only one life to live;
if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we
wish.
The truth is that
there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not
important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the
only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
From your parents
you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when
books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes
There is a secret pride in
every human heart that revolts a tyranny. You may order and drive an individual,
but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
I
don't like using my brain, and avoid doing so whenever possible. Overuse dulls
a sharp blade.
Richard Heathfield, comp.lang.c
Hell is truth seen too late.
Georg Hegel (1770-1831) German
philosopher (also attrib. H.G.
Adams, Tryon Edwards, John Locke, Anatole France)
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people
on your side that you wish were on the other side.
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)
Lithuanian-American violinist
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends.
People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising
glance at his pals.
Cynthia Heimel (contemp.) American
feminist, humorist, writer
A man
will call a woman 'bitch' when he can't control her, when she won't do his
bidding, when she's not compliant to his needs. I like this in a word.
Cynthia Heimel (contemp.) American
feminist, humorist, writer
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin
line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot
on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel (contemp.) American
feminist, humorist, writer
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German
poet and critic Almansor: A Tragedy (1823)
Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and
grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your
hand -- these things are marriage, and sex is but the icing on the cake.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
Yield to temptation. It may
not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one?
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
There are hidden
contradictions in the minds of people who love Nature while deploring the
artificialities with which Man has spoiled ‘Nature.’ The obvious contradiction
lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not
part of Nature—but beavers and their dams are.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and
dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know
that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
Intangibles are the most honest merchandise anyone can sell. They are
always worth whatever you are willing to pay for them and they never wear out.
You can take them to your grave untarnished.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer The Man Who Sold the Moon
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him
that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen,
that "news" is not something that happens to other people.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer The Number of the Beast
A thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and
finding out. Galileo proved that and it may be the only certainty we have.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
Don’t ever become
a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an
optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
Good intentions are no substitute for knowing how a buzz saw works.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
A person who takes smug pride in telling the blunt truth is a sadist, not
a saint.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Anyone
who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable
subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
You can have
peace or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
Women and cats
will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Time Enough for Love
Progress is made
by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
Anyone
who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that
‘violence never solves anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon
Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of
Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and
the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in
history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking
at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with
their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
Advice to all explorers: Do not roam the universes without a spare can opener.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer The Number of the Beast
Never
encourage a man to cook breakfast; it causes him to wonder if women are
necessary.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer The Number of the Beast
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation. Stupidity is not a sin; the victim can't help being stupid. But
stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is
no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer Lazarus Long
We
often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in
us.
Robert A. Heinlein (1909-1988) American
writer
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Werner Heisenberg (1905-1976) German
physicist
When I want an answer from
you, I will look at you, which will be as seldom as possible.
Joseph Heller Catch-22
The enemy is
anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from
injustice?
Lillian Hellman (1906-1987) American
playwright, screenwriter
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman (1906-1987) American
playwright, screenwriter
Letter to HUAAC
A friend encourages your
dreams and offers advice--but when you don’t follow it, they still respect and
love you.
Doris Wild Helmering
Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong
hands.
Jesse Helms (b. 1921) American
conservative politician
Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American
writer
The world breaks
everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that
will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the
very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will
kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American
writer
Poor Faulkner. Does he really
think big emotions come from big words?
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
Every damn thing is your own fault, if you're any good.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American
writer Green Hills of
I can't believe how much I've grown up over the years. I used to think
life was just drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll. Thank God I had the guts to change
and develop more mature values. Now it's wine, women and song.
Marian Henley (contemp.) American
cartoonist ("Maxine") Maxine
Carpe
Diem -- For the Romans, 'Seize the carp' meant to grab a fish for yourself now.
Not to wait, not even to take time to cook it, but to eat of life and enjoy.
For tomorrow you may die. We who are about to eat raw fish salute you.
Jeffrey Henning
Where
have all the little white flowers gone? - he said lackadaisically.
David Henry
Is life so dear, or 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!
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American
revolutionary and orator
That’s the way it
is here in Muppet Central. The fantasy always wins.
Jim Henson
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a
living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katherine Hepburn (b. 1907) American
actress
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katherine Hepburn (b. 1907) American
actress
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever
happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final
analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katherine Hepburn (b. 1907) American
actress
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers,
the school, the teachers -- you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's
never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change,
you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?
Katherine Hepburn (b. 1907) American
actress
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in
sheep.
Sir Alan Patrick
Herbert (1890-1971) English journalist and writer [pseud. Albert Haddock]
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
(See also Earthworm Jim, Petey)
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold (1889-1966) American
humorist, author
But doubt is as crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one,
the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition,
uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of
the known, but of the unknown.
Rev. Carter Heywood (contemp.) American
Episcopal priest, Lesbian, writer A Priest Forever
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Cullen Hightower (b. 1923) American
salesman and writer
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous
for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower (b. 1923) American
salesman and writer
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating or complex --
but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower (b. 1923) American
salesman and writer
Until you have
learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you
have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not
admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the
bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
If you lend a friend a
hundred dollars and never see him again, it's worth it.
Van Alan Hill
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the whole
Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
Rabbi Hillel (1st C. BC-1st C.
AD) Jewish sage
Last Saturday morning, I concluded that there is nothing harder to find
than a bottle of pancake syrup reshelved six inches away from its accustomed
spot.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates (c. 460-c.377 BC)
Greek physician
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if
you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English
film director
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed
with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English
film director
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to
give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are
like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of
dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the
year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English
film director
Television has brought back murder into the home — where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English
film director London Observer (quoted) (
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make
people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the
more readily it will be believed.
Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) German
leader Mein Kampf
I am a strict vegetarian. That is, I consume no meat from carnivorous
animals. Chicken, however, is simply a rapid form of corn, while cows are
grass, reprocessed for our convenience.
Allan Hjerpe (contemp.) American
old harp singer RelHumor-L (
Sometimes a man does not know
how badly he is hurt until someone else probes the wound.
Robin Hobb
Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another’s
world.
Robin Hobb
“Burrich. What I said to you earlier, I was
angry, I was . . .”
“Right on target.” The sound he made
might have been a laugh, if it had not been so freighted with bitterness.
“Only in the way that people who know
one another best know how to hurt one another best,” I pleaded.
Robin Hobb
It is good to know well a man
you are going to kill; it is not good to understand him.
Robin Hobb
But a wall that will not
yield to a battering ram can still be breached by a gentle twining of ivy.
Robin Hobb
I do not confuse what was
done to you with who you are.
Robin Hobb
I’m no more apt to lie than
you are, but there are a hundred ways to hide the truth.
P C Hodgell
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962) English
poet
Intolerance is the "Do Not Disturb" sign on something that
cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not
tolerate any familiarity with the toupee that covers our baldness.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential.
Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with
nonconformity.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he
uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
To know a person’s religion
we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of
intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The Passionate State
of
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by
its least worthy members.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American
writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The True Believer:
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
. . . when all the cities
shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the
last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on
the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny
insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole
survivor of animal life on this our earth -- a melancholy bug.
William Jacob Holland, The Moth Book
Can you imagine a
world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
Nicole Hollander
It is well to remember that
the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew
Holmes
The universe is not hostile,
nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
John Hughes
Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old
man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
The young man
knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American
poet, essayist, scholar
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single
inhabitant of these our corporeal frames ... We all do things both awake and
asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have co-tenants in this house we live in.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar The
Guardian Ange (1867)
A man over ninety
is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the
extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy
must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar The
Guardian Ange (1867)
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much
more than those who try to be "consistent."
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice The
Professor at the Breakfast Table
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a
lousy meeting.
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964)
President of the
The function of government is to protect me from others. It's up to me,
thank you, to protect me from me.
Arthur W. Hoppe (1925-2000) American
newspaper columnist, humorist, satirist
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all unwept and unknown they
sleep in endless night, for they had no poets to sound their praises.
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet
and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus] Odes
Dance for
yourself. If someone understands, good. If not then no matter, go right on
doing what you love.
Louis Horst
Come to think of
it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the
Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!
Blair Houghton
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is
irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A. E. Housman (1859-1936) English
scholar and poet
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) American
journalist and author Country Town Sayings
For a long time
it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some
obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished
business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At
last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car
could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English
astronomer, author
Every man is a damn fool at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists
in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American
writer, printer, businessman
Genius is the capacity for
evading hard work.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, printer, businessman
God will not look
you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American
writer, printer, businessman
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) American
caricaturist and humorist [Frank McKinney Hubbard]
I haven’t been wrong since
1961, when I thought I made a mistake.
Bob Hudson
You know as well as I do that
the victim goes on trial with the accused.
Tanya Huff
One can dream of something more terrible than a hell where one suffers;
it's a hell where one would get bored.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French
writer
When a woman is talking to
you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French
writer
I met in the street a very
poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was
out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through
his soul.
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) French writer
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever
the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French
writer
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
taken seriously.
Hubert Horatio
Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician Speech in
“(When asked what love is
like.)”It’s like you are 3 years old and you don’t go anywhere without your
blanket or your favorite teddy bear. And whenever you aren’t with it, you feel
an emptiness. But when you have your teddy bear or blanket back, you feel whole
again, and it puts a smile on your face and a warm place in your heart. Such is
love.”
Dave Hunt
Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you
had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's
wondrous — with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross — but it is
not for the timid.
Maurice Hurley (contemp.) American
television writer, producer [a.k.a. C.J. Holland] Star
Trek: The Next Generation, "Q Who?"
Q: Out there, there are more wonders than you can ever imagine,
and terrors to freeze your soul.
In elementary school, in case
of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to
tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Warren
Hutcherson
Reality, however utopian, is
something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by
an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English
biologist
The chess board
is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the
game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is
hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we
also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the
smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English
biologist
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as
to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English
biologist "On
Elemental Instruction in Physiology" (1877)