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Quotes
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"They called it golf because all the other four letter words were taken."
Walter Hagen.
"Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years."
Monty Hall
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what he feels about dogs."
Christopher Hampton
"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) US journalist, author
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening....The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
William Harris U.S. Commissioner of Education , 1889
"I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back."
Hawkeye from *M*A*S*H*
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
Stephen Hawking English physicist, educator, author He used black holes to help explain universal physical laws in "A Brief History of Time," 1987.
"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."
Stephen Hawking Author, Mathematician, Physicist
"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"
Helen Hayes
"A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot."
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher
"Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it can't be done and it only ticks off the pig."
Robert Heinlein science fiction author
"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein science fiction author
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago."
Robert A. Heinlein
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein, Author Beyond the Horizon, 1942
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Joseph Heller Catch-22
"Never mistake motion for action."
Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemmingway
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
Patrick Henry
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains? Forbid it Almighty God!", and "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
Katharine Hepburn
"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often."
Oliver Herford
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus (484--432 BC), Greek Historian.
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies."
Gene Hill
"The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach."
Hillel, 30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), film director.
"Television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it."
Alfred Hitchcock
"Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future.... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken."
Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (1902-1983).
"Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident."
James P. Hogan, writer
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher.
"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz - Motivation Training Guru
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
Bob Hope
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby
"Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake."
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) US editor, Novelist, Essayist
"No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves."
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) US editor, Novelist, Essayist
"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."
Howard Hughes (1905-1976) US manufacturer, aviator, producer
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French author, dramatist "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," 1831 and "Les Miserables," 1862.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) born on Feb 26 French author, dramatist "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," 1831 and "Les Miserables," 1862.
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British novelist
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Thomas Huxley
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