Hate
- Let them hate, so long as they fear.
-- Lucius Accius
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
-- James Baldwin
- Hatred is self-punishment.
-- Hosea Ballou
- There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
-- Buddha
- Hatred is the madness of the heart.
-- Lord Byron
- Hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
-- Lord Byron
- Hatred is settled anger.
-- Cicero
- Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
-- William Congreve
- Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who fears noises.
-- Cyril Connolly
- Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
-- George Eliot
- A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
-- Miles Franklin
- He that fears you present will hate you absent.
-- Thomas Fuller
- I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- André Gide
- National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-- Herman Hesse
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
-- Eric Hoffer
- Great hate follows great love.
-- Irish Proverb
- Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
-- Martin Luther King, Sr.
- When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
-- Archibald MacLeish
- Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
-- Kathleen Norris
- Who can refute a sneer?
-- William Paley
- Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
-- Cesar Pavese
- Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
-- Sir Walter Ralegh
- We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
-- jean-Francois Regnard
- In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
-- Mary Renault
- Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
-- Jean Paul Richter
- To hate fatigues.
-- Jean Rostand
- Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
-- Bertrand Russel
- Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
-- Arnold Schopenhauer
- Whom they have injured, they also hate.
-- Seneca
- Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
-- Tacitus
- I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
-- Booker T. Washington
- You cannot hate other people without hating your self.
-- Oprah Winfrey
- Hate is not a good counselor.
-- Victoria Wolff
Health
- He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
-- Arabian Proverb
- There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
-- Josh Billings
- To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
-- Francis Bowen
- I consider myself an expert on love, sex, and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.
-- Barbara Cartland
- Thousands and thousands of people have studied disease. Almost nno one has studied health.
-- Adelle Davis
- Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
-- De Saint-Real
- I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
-- Louise Erdrich
- Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage the shorter the trip.
-- E. Glasgow
- The body never lies.
-- Martha Graham
- The healthy die first.
-- Italian Proverb
- If you want to live, you must walk. If you want to live long, you must run.
-- J. Navik
- It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Illness is a great leveler. At its touch, the artificial distinctions of society vanish away. People in a hospital are just people.
-- M. Thorek
- For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
-- Lily Tomlin
- The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
-- Mark Twain
- The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
-- Voltaire
Heart
- Two things are bad for the heart--running up stairs and running down people.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
- The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- There is no instinct like that of the heart.
-- Lord Byron
- The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
-- Jacques Bénigne Bossuel
- The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
-- Jean Galoert de Campistron
- The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
-- Willa Cather
- The world either breaks or hardens the heart.
-- Nicolas Chamfort
- If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
-- Confucius
- Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
-- Khalil Gibran
- It is easier to knaw through bone
Than the hide of the heart.
-- Diane Glancy
- What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
-- Sonia Johnson
- I think hearts are very much like glasses--if they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
-- L.E. Landon
- The heart is forever making the head its fool.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- The logic of the heart is absurd.
-- Julie de Lespinasse
- As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
-- H. L. Mencken
- Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
-- Theodore Parker
- My heart is like a singing bird.
-- Christina Rossetti
- Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.
-- Mary Dixon Thayer
Heaven
- To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.
-- Anon.
- Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
-- Thomas G. Appleton
- . . . when bad Americans die, they go to America.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- To be with God.
-- Confucius
- Heaven without good society cannot be heaven.
-- Thomas Fuller
- The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
-- Thomas Hardy
- The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time.
-- Ed Howe
- What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec
- On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
-- Jules Renard
- What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
-- Mark Twain
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places.
-- Mark Twain
- Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
-- Mark Twain
- I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my Puritaan inheritance, I suppose.
-- Elinor Wylie
Hell
- Heaven for climate, hell for company.
-- James M. Barrie
- Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
-- Georges Bernanos
- The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven.
-- Josh Billings
- An apology for the Devil -- it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
-- Samuel Butler
- Hell is truth seen too late--duty neglected in its season.
-- Tryon Edwards
- The road to hell is thick with taxicabs.
-- Don Herold
- There may be some doubt about hell beyond the grave but there is no doubt about there being one on this side of it.
-- Ed Howe
- Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
-- Aldous Huxley
- The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
-- C. S. Lewis
- The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
-- Karl Marx
- If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
-- Thomas Merton
- The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato -- the only good belonging to him is underground.
-- Thomas Overbury
- It is inded a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
-- Plutarch
- To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- It doesn't matter what they preach, Of high or low degree; The old Hell of the Bible Is hell enough for me.
-- Frank L. Stanton
- If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
-- William A. Sunday
- I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-- Harry S. Truman
- The only people I know who still believe in hell are the ones who had the proper kind of upbringing.
-- Mark Twain
- Hell is indefinite.
-- Charles Williams
Heredity
- A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
-- Anon.
- The cuckoo lays her eggs in another bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. A man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
-- Amelia E. Barr
- Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traitsin our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
-- Van Wyck Brooks
- Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
-- Luther Burbank
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-- Samuel Butler
- A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.
-- French Proverb
- Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
-- Johann Caspar Lavater
- One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
-- Olin Miller
- When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
-- Lord Northcliffe
- The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
-- Austin O'Malley
- Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
-- Voltaire
- A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
-- Woodrow Wilson
Help
- A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
-- Anon.
- He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl.
-- Joanna Baillie
- Everyone needs help from everyone.
-- Bertolt Brecht
- When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.
-- Barbara Bush
- To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian -- to help them is.
-- Frank A. Clark
- make yourself necessary to somebody.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
-- Henry Ford
- Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.
-- Hindu Proverb
- Light is the task where many share the toil.
-- Homer
- He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
-- Joseph Joubert
- Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
-- George MacDonald
- God helps them that help themselves.
-- Proverb
- In about the same degree that you are helpful, you will be happy.
-- Karl Reiland
- Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
-- John Ruskin
- The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
-- Walter Scott
- You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
-- Ruth Smeltzer
- If you're in trouble, or hurt or need--go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones.
-- John Steinbeck
- To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa
- No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions -- he had money too.
-- Margaret Thatcher
- Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
-- Vauvenargues
- Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
-- Yiddish Proverb
Heroes / Heroism
- Hero-worship is mostly idol gossip.
-- Anon.
- The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
-- Joanna Baillie
- I am my own heroine.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- No man is a hero to his valet.
-- Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men -- the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.
-- Esther Forbes
- The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
-- Charles H. Fowler
- To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
- When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
-- Heinrich Heine
- As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- In a truly heroic life there is no preadventure. It is always doing or dying.
-- R.D. Hitchcock
- You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.
-- Admiral Grace Hooper
- A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
-- Ed Howe
- It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Sister Elizabeth Kenny
- The law has no power over heroes.
-- Charlotte Lennox
- Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
-- Bernard Malamud
- In war, the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
-- H. L. Mencken
- I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
-- Wilson Mizner
- Calculation never made a hero.
-- John Henry Newman
- Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
-- Carol Pearson
- Kill reverence, and you have killed the hero in a man.
-- Edward Rand
- All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
-- Sally Ride
- We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
-- Will Rogers
- The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
-- Will Rogers
- Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
-- Will Rogers
- Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
-- Herbert Spencer
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