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- H - I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.   Adm William Halsey Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.   Sir William Hamilton ['Discussions on Philosophy', 1852] The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.   Lucille S. Harper Oh, what lies there are in kisses.   Heinrich Heine My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.   Ernest Hemingway Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?   Rowland Hill (1744-1833) Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.   John Oliver Hobbes I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.   Jimmy Hoffa It is easier to love humanity . . . . than one's neighbor.   Eric Hoffer The great tragedy of Science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.   T.H. Huxley ['Collected Essays', 1894 ] Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.   Herbert Hoover. A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.   Edgar Watson Howe Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.   Edgar Watson Howe Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.   Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.   Elbert Hubbard A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.   Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.   Victor Hugo I don't think I shall ever get over this.   Leigh Hunt, last words

- I - An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.   Ibycus Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.   Washington Irving Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.   Italian Proverb

- J - It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.   Andrew Jackson I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.   Gen. Stonewall Jackson The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.   Douglas Jerrold Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life.   David Jerold ['Wit and Opinions', 1859] Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.   David Jerold ['The Devil's Ducat', 1830] I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.   Jerome K. Jerome ['They and I', 1909] The friendship that can cease has never been real.   Saint Jerome Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.   Lyndon B Johnson Architecture is the art of how to waste space.   Philip Johnson [in the New York Times, 27 Dec 1964] I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.    Samuel Johnson

- K - My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.   Charles F. Kettering The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.   Martin Luther King If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.   Will Kommen

- L - There is a woman at the begining of all great things.   Alphonse de Lamartine Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.   Ann Landers, Advice Columnist Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.   Byron J. Langenfeld The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.   Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.   Doug Larson You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.   Stanislaw Lec Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.   John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987 Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.   Robert Leighton (1611-1684) A lie told often enough becomes the truth.   V.I. Lenin Life is what happens while you are making other plans.   John Lennon, singer and songwriter We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.   Sugar Ray Leonard When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.   Max Lerner Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.   Abraham Lincoln He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.   Abraham Lincoln Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.   Nicholas Ling Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.   Lazarus Long - character by Robert A Heinlein Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.   Sophia Loren, actress Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.   James Russel Lowell I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.   E.V. Lucas Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.   Robert Lynd

- M - Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.   Thomas Babington Macaulay To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.   George MacDonald Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.   Sidney Madwed Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.   Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.   Jayne Mansfield It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.   Judith S. Martin I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.   Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.   Groucho Marx Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the treds, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.   Edgar Lee Masters An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.   W. Somerset Maugham, author Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.   W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.   W. Somerset Maugham It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.   Herman Melville, american author He who knows how to be poor knows everything.   Jules Michelet, (1798-1847) One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.   A. A. Milne, author It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.   Stirling Moss, British racing car driver, Newsweek May 16, 1955 Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.   Iris Murdoch

- N - Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.   Ogden Nash, (1902-1971) from The Old Dog Barks Backwards A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.   Ogden Nash To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.   Ogden Nash I drink to make other people interesting.   George Jean Nathan Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.   Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.   Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900) Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.   Anais Nin

- O - Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.   David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.   David Ogilvy Turn up the light. I don't want to go home in the dark.   O' Henry, last words If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters.   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, reporter, editor, US First Lady There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.   J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) physicist, a-bomb developer We knew the world could not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "I am became Death, the destroyers of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.   J Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) American physicist, Recalling the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Almogordo, New Mexico [Jul. 15, 1945] Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.   George Orwell, author There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.   Charles Osgood, journalist

- P - What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.   Thomas Paine It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.   Blaise Pascal Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.   George S. Patton, US General We do not remember days, we remember moments.   Cesare Pavese The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.   Alexander Penney The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.   Eden Phillpots I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.   Pablo Picasso, artist The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it's just a tired feeling.   Paula Poundstone Do not eat your heart.   Pythagoras