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Habit
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
CROMWELL, OLIVER
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine O Hippo
Habit is a sort of second nature.
Cicero
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Feoder Dostoevski
Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann
When a man boasts of his bad habits, you may rest assured they are the best he has.
Woodrow Wilson
Hands
Living from hand to mouth, soon satisfied.
Guillaume Du Bartas
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
New Testament
Many hands make light work.
Proverb
One hand washeth the other.
Seneca
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Shakespeare
His hand will be against every man and every man’s hand against him.
Genesis
Happiness
No greater sorrow that to recell in our misery the time when we were happy.
DANTE, ALIGHIERI
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
SPENCER, HERBERT
The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Happiness is no laughing matter.
WHATELY, RICHARD
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Besides a human door.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
RITA MAE BROWN
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
THE DALAI LAMA
Hatred
Let them hate as long as they fear.
ACCIUS LUCIUS
I hate the vulgar throng and drive them from me.
HORACE
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
Lord Chesterfield
Man hate more steadity than they love.
Samuel Johnson
I could never hate anyone I knew.
Charles Lamb
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
Quintus Ennius
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
Now hatred is by far the greatest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.
George Eliot
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is characteristic of human nature to hate the man whom you have wronged.
Tacitus
Health
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
If you want to know if your brain is flabby feel of your legs.
Bruce Barton
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
Benjamin Franklin
Life is not merely being alive, but being well
Martial
A man in good health is always full of advice to the sick.
Menander
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
Seneca
In school you get the lesson and then take test …In life you take the test and then get the lesson.
UNKNOWN
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Cicero
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happinesss and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
Juvenal
Heart
I am not the rose, but I have lived with her.
HENRI BENJAMIN
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
ELIZABETH
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all.
Many the hopes that have vanished, after the ball.
HARRIS, CHARLES K.
But the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard.
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES
And song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
LOVELL, MARIA ANNE
My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
ALFRED TENNYSON
A man who desires to soften another man’s heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman’s heart, he should abuse her.
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY
Heaven
On earth the broken arcs; in heaven, a perfect round.
BROWNING, ROBERT
If the heavens were to break and fall the ruins would strike him undismayed.
HORACE
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Imparadised in one another’s arms.
MILTON, JOHN
All places are distant from heaven alike.
Robert Burton
What a man misses mostly in heaven in company.
Mark Twain
Hell
If it’s heaven for climate, it’s hell for company.
BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light
MILTON, JOHN
There are no devils in Hell, they are all here.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hell is full of good intentions or desires
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
I found the original of my hell in the world which we inhabit.
Dante
Men might go to heaven with half the labour they put to go to hell, if they would but venture their industry in the right way.
Ben Johnson
Hell is a circle about the unbelieving.
The Koran
Heroism
That’s one small step for a man, one giant step for mankind.
ARMSTRONG, NEIL
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
MARC BROWN
Life is always about facing bigger challenges and choosing the highest summits to climb. How else would you find the thresholds of your potentials? Might as well choose the riskiest and face your fears.
HRITHIK ROSHAN
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
FELIX ADLER
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh—that is to say, over fear. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concerntration of courage.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History
That great dust-heap called ‘history’.
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
CARLYLE, THOMAS
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
EDWARDS, RICHARD
There is properly no history; only biography.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
History; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
GIBBON, EDWARD
If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
PASCAL, BLAISE
The enactment of the law is a historic step towards ending gender discrimination.
RENUKA CHOWDHURY
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
CICERO
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
MOTHER TERESA
The great object in trying to understand history is to get behind men and grasp ideas.
Lord Acton
Neither history nor economics can be intelligently studied without a constant reference to the geographical surroundings which have affected different nations.
Henry Adams
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
John Buchan
Biography is the only true history.
Thomas Carlyle
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Cicero
History is the witness of the times, the torch of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
Cicero
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
All history, so far as it is not supported by contemporary evidence, is romance.
Samuel Johnson
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
Home
Miserable, to my thinking, is he who in his home has no place where he can be his sole company; where he can invite his mind; where he can lurk secure.
MONTAIGNE, MICHAEL EYQUEM DE
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Home is the girl’s prison and woman’s work house.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR
The chief blessing is an honourable home—and its crowning glory is worthy offspring.
THIRUVALLUVAR
Honesty
There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.
BENNETT, ENOCH ARNOLD
A wise and salutary neglect.
BURKE, EDMUND
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
WALTON, IZAAK
He who says there is no much thing as an honest man, is himself a knave.
George Berkeley
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Honesty is the best policy.
Cervantes
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid
An honest man is noblest work of god.
Alexander Pope
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Philip Sidney
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Charles Simmons
Honour
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
BURKE, EDMUND
A studious decliner of honours and titles.
EVELYN, JOHN
All is lost except honour.
FRANCIS I
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.
Horace
Better a thousand times to die with glory than live without honor.
Louis Vi Of France
Hope
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Those who believe in Him get to the gate of salvation. Those who believe in Him are saved with their kin. Those who believe in Him swim across and help others to swim. Those who believe in Him don’t have to beg of others. Such is the name of God the Pure, Those who believe in Him they alone get to know Him.
Guru Nanak
Why do you go to the forest in search of God. He lives in all and is yet ever distinct; He abides with you, too, As fragrance dwells in a flower, And reflection in a mirror; So does God dwell inside everything; Seed Him, therefore in your heart.
ADI GRANTH
Hospitality
When there is room in the heart there is room in the house.
Danish Proverb
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
John Lyly
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Threau
Humility
Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.
AUSTEN, JANE
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
Confucius
I ate humble pie with an appetite.
Charles Dicknes
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Benjamin Franklin
Hunger
Hellish dark, and smells of cheese!
SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry
Death in all its shapes is hateful to unhappy man, but the worst is death from hunger.
Homer
Husband
It is necessary to be almost a genius to make a good husband.
Honore de Balzac
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and
likewise also the wife unto the husband.
I Corinthians
A husband’s patience atones for all crimes.
Heinrich Heine