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Human Nature A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.    -- Francis Bacon We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellow man.    -- Lyman Lloyd Bryson A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.    -- Sara Jenett Duncan It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.    -- Charles Dickens Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.    -- Albert Einstein It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.    -- Anatole France Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.    -- Erich Fromm Some of us are like wheelbarrows--only useful when pushed, and very easily upset.    -- Jack Herbert It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.    -- Eric Hoffer The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly consuming inner fire.    -- Herman Hesse It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.    -- John Andrew Holmes Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.    -- Aldous Huxley An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'    -- William James See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.    -- Pope John XXII A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: Everyone you meet is your mirror.    -- Ken Keyes, Jr. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.    -- Charles Lamb Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.    -- Howard Lindsay In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.    -- Margaret Mead It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.    -- George Dennison Prentice The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.    -- Marcel Proust My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.    -- William Shakespeare A lady asked me why, on most occasions, I wore black. "Are you in mourning?" "Yes." "For whom are you in mourning?" "For the world."    -- Dame Edith Sitwell I am a part of all that I have met.    -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson There is a great deal of human nature in people.    -- Mark Twain We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.    -- Vauvenargues I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.    -- Edward Noyes Westcott

Humility It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.    -- Saint Augustine The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exhalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.    -- Josh Billings Without humility there can be no humanity.    -- John Buchan Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.    -- Richard Dawkins Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.    -- Margaret Halsey The first of all other virtues--for other people.    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf.    -- Italian Proverb The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.    -- Mignon McLaughlin Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows.    -- Helen Nielsen Humility is attentive patience.    -- Simone Weil I feel coming on a strange disease--humility.    -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Humor A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you.    -- Anon. Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.    -- Anon. Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.    -- Aristotle He'd never laugh at my jokes. I was a woman, meaning my relationship with humor should have been as an object, not a perpetrator.    -- Rosanne Arnold You row up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.    -- Ethel Barrymore Humor tells you where the trouble is.    -- Louise Bernikow There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.    -- Josh Billings We must laugh at a man to avoid crying for him.    -- Napoleon Bonaparte Humor is just another defence against the universe.    -- Mel Brooks Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.    -- Rita Mae Brown If you want to make people week, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.    -- Casanova Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.    -- Irvin S. Cobb Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?    -- Frank Moore Colby The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.    -- Robertson Davies Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.    -- Edward De Bono The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.    -- Peter De Vries A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.    -- George Eliot If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.    -- Mahatma Gandhi A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it.    -- Don Herold Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.    -- Mary Hirsch A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.    -- Raymond Hitchcock A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.    -- Buster Keaton He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.    -- The Koran The teller of a mirthful tale has lattitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.    -- Charles Lamb Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.    -- Charles Lamb Don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.    -- Elsa Maxwell I had thought, on starting this composition, that I should define what humor means to me. However, every time I tried to, I had to go and lie down with a cold wet cloth on my head.    -- Dorothy Parker There's a hell of a difference between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.    -- Dorothy Parker Even the gods love jokes.    -- Plato There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.    -- J.J. Procter Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are knocked off their earthly pedestals.    -- Agnes Repplier Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.    -- Will Rogers If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.    -- Will Rogers There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.    -- Adele Rogers St. John Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.    -- David Seabury Jesters do oft prove prophets.    -- Wiliam Shakespeare - King Lear It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.    -- Gertrude Stein Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.    -- William Makepeace Thackeray Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.    -- James Thurber There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.    -- Mark Twain That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.    -- Gloria Vanderbilt Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.    -- Mark Van Doren We are not amused!    -- Queen Victoria It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.    -- Mae West Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by his side.    -- Edwin Percy Whipple Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.    -- E.B. White The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.    -- Alfred North Whitehead Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.    -- Virginia Woolfe

Hunger If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.    -- Marie Antoinette Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.    -- Pearl Bailey Hunger makes a thief of any man.    -- Pearl S. Buck There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.    -- Pearl S. Buck A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.    -- Pearl S. Buck An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.    -- Albert Einstein No man can be wise on an empty stomach.    -- George Eliot A hungry man is an angry one.    -- Buchi Emecheta Hunger steals the memory.    -- Louise Erdrich We can plant wheat every year, but the people who are starving die only once.    -- Fiorello H. La Guardia Hunger also changes the world--when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.    -- Maxine Hong Kingston A hungry dog will eat dirty puddings.    -- Latin Proverb No clock is more regular than the belly.    -- Rabelais The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.    -- Eleanor Rooseveldt A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.    -- Seneca No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.    -- Woodrow Wilson Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.    -- Woodrow Wilson

Husband Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.    -- Abigail Smith Adams My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.    -- Gracie Allen All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.    -- Anon. Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.    -- Minna Antrim Fat generally tends to make a man a better husband. His wife is happy in the knowledge she is not married to a woman chaser. Few fat men chase girls, because they get winded too easily.    -- Hal Boyle I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.    -- Anita Brookner Positive reinforcement is hugging your husband when he does a load of laundry. Negative reinforcement is telling him he used too much detergent.    -- Dr. Joyce Brothers There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day.    -- Jean du la Bruyere An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.    -- Agatha Christie Grandchildren do not make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.    -- G. Norman Collie I have never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growels every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.    -- Marie Corelli The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.    -- Thomas Dekker Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.    -- Marlene Dietrich The better the workman, the worse husband.    -- Thomas Draxe A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.    -- French Proverb God, give me a rich husband though he be an ass.    -- Thomas Fuller He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.    -- Thomas Fuller Husbands are like fires. They go out if left unattended.    -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.    -- Katharine Hepburn Husband and wife come to look alike at last.    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.    -- Edgar Watson Howe There is only one thing to do for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.    -- Edgar Watson Howe Oh! how I long to see my dear husband, that I may quarrel with him!    -- Mrs Inchbald Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.    -- Jean Kerr A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.    -- Amy Levy Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.    -- H. L. Mencken The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.    -- Groucho Marx An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.    -- Ouida His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.    -- Dorothy Parker Don't worry. If you keep him long enough he'll come back in style.    -- Dorothy Parker A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.    -- Helen Rowland Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman to help him forget them.    -- Helen Rowland A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.    -- Sir George Savile No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.    -- Gene Stratton-Porter The true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.    -- Anna Wickham One can always recognize women who trust their husbands. They look so thoroughly unhappy.    -- Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.    -- Francis Bacon When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.    -- Otto von Bismark The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be-- But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.    -- Walter Bower Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat.    -- Samuel Butler The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?    -- Congolese Proverb Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.    -- English Proverb Clean your finger before you point at my spots.    -- Benjamin Franklin It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.    -- Ivan Goncharov 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 We are not hypocrites in our sleep.    -- William Hazlitt Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.    -- George Herbert Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply your bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution which he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage -- resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are a part of the institution do not condemn it.    -- Elbert Hubbard If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners--let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.    -- Aldous Huxley No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.    -- Samuel Johnson Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.    -- François de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents ... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.    -- Abraham Lincoln For neither man nor angel can discern hypocracy, the only evil that walks invisible.    -- John Milton I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.    -- Michel de Montaigne It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.    -- Thomas Paine Few men speak humbly of humility, chasely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.    -- Blaise Pascal He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.    -- Edwin Arlington Robinson Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.    -- George Bernard Shaw A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.    -- Adlai E. Stevenson One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.    -- Amy Vanderbuilt The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it.    -- Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time. That would be hypocracy.    -- Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.    -- Oscar Wilde