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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal  not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice  but because he has a soul  a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
— William Faulkner
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer  the bulb uppermost  and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.
— Henry Hewes
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
— Euripides
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
— William Osier
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics  chemistry or animal behaviour.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied  another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
— Douglas McGregor
The forgotten man. He is the clean  quiet  virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works  he votes  generally he prays  but his chief business in life is to pay.
— William Graham Sumner
Limited in his nature  infinite in his desires  man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
— William Hazlitt
Men must endure their going hence  even as their coming hither  ripeness is all.
— William Shakespeare
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
— William Saroyan
The voice is a second signature.
— R. I. Fitzhenry
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
— George Santayana
Know then thyself  presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.
— Alexander Pope
Man  an animal that makes bargains.
— Adam Smith
Man is a reasoning  rather than a reasonable animal.
— Robert B. Hamilton
Man will ever stand in need of man.
— Theocritus
We are members one of another.
— Bible
Man is only a reed  the weakest thing in nature  but he is a thinking reed.
— Blaise Pascal
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps  for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
— William Hazlitt
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran  And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
— William Wordsworth
Admire  exult  despise  laugh  weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
— Lord Byron
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
— Martin Esslin
If heaven made him  earth can find some use for him.
— Chinese proverb
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws  and obey them  space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
— Wernher von Braun
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
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
— John Steinbeck
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise  or due process of law  or the Australian ballot.
— John F. Kennedy
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
— George Santayana
That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents  no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.
— Anthony Storr
Every man is more than just himself  he also represents the unique  the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect  only once in this way  and never again.
— Hermann Hesse
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
— Charles Lamb
Man is an abyss  and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
— Georg Buchner
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
— Mona Caird
For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self  a journey into our killer's desire.
— Ayi Kwei Armah
What comes from the heart  goes to the heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
— Tom Stoppard
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
— Billy Graham
Of all feats of skill  the most difficult is that of being honest.
— Comtesse Diane
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men  must leave off dealing.
— Thomas Fuller
'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way  and he is only honest who is not discovered.
— Susannah Centlivre
There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes'  you know he is crooked.
— Groucho Marx
The honester the man  the worse luck.
— John Ray
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
— Dean William R. Inge
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have  the man looked honest enough.
— Mark Twain
Honesty's praised  then left to freeze.
— Juvenal
Wealth makes everything easy - honesty most of all.
— Comtesse Diane
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Every man has his fault  and honesty is his.
— William Shakespeare
One must not cheat anybody  not even the world of one's triumph.
— Franz Kafka
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
Anger cannot be dishonest.
— George R. Bach
I'm frank  brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank  I look frank.
— Lord Thomson
The young man turned to him with a disarming candour  which instantly put him on his guard.
— Saki
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time  but they will be remembered  and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
— Samuel Johnson
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
— Sigmund Freud
Honesty is the best policy.
— Miguel de Cervantes
When rogues fall out  honest men get into their own.
— Sir Matthew Hale
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
— Alexander Pope
Ay  sir  to be honest  as this world goes  is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
— William Shakespeare
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles  the character of an "Honest Man."
— George Washington
Honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
These were honoured in their generations  and were the glory of the times.
— Anonymous
I could not love thee  dear  so much  Loved I not honor more.
— Richard Lovelace
For Brutus is an honourable man  So are they all  all honourable men.
— William Shakespeare
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them " A prophet is not without honour  save in his own country  and in his own house."
— Bible
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
— Calvin Coolidge
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
— Mark Twain
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient  unprofitable or dangerous to do so.
— Walter Lippmann
The louder he talked of his honour  the faster we counted our spoons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honour follows those who flee it.
— Anonymous
God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.
— Arabic proverb
Fame is something which must be won  honour is something which must not be lost.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours  but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
I could not love thee  dear  so much Loved I not honour more.
— Richard Lovelace
Honour pricks me on. Yea  but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery  then? No. What is honour? A word.
— William Shakespeare
Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.
— Margaret Fuller
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.
— Spanish proverb
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
— A. P. Herbert
It is a long lane that has no turning.
— Old saying
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true  they ruin our dreams.
— Eric Hoffer
When you get to the end of your rope  tie a knot and hang on.
— Anonymous
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
— Thornton Wilder
Hope is itself a species of happiness  and  perhaps  the chief happiness which this world affords.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope  deceitful as it is  serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
— La Rochefoucauld
One need not hope in order to undertake  nor succeed in order to persevere.
— William the Silent
Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
— Abraham Cowley
Hope is the poor man's bread.
— George Herbert
Hope springs eternal in the human breast  Man never is  but always to be blest.
— Alexander Pope
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
— Martin Luther
Hope is a good breakfast  but it is a bad supper.
— Francis Bacon
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
— Satya Sai Baba
One of the best safeguards of our hopes  I have suggested  is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them  to face them directly  not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
— William F. Lynch
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
— Norman Cousins
Some one once said to me  'Reverend Schuller  I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied  T hope not  because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled  I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
— Robert Schuller
The slow compromise  or even surrender  of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
— Leston L. Havens
Hope is an echo  hope ties itself yonder  yonder.
— Carl Sandburg
'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
— Emily Dickinson
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
— Harriet Martineau
If it were not for hopes  the heart would break.
— Thomas Fuller
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope  and few are reduced so low as that.
— William Hazlitt
Wonder ... music heard in the heart  is voiceless.
— Rosemary Dobson
To all the living there is hope  for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
— Bible
Everybody lives for something better to come.
— Anonymous
At first we hope too much  later on  not enough.
— Joseph Roux
Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
— Mark Twain
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
— Jose Joaquin Olmedo
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
— Charles Sawyer
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love  something to do  and something to hope for.
— Tom Bodett
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
— LeRoy Douglas
A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone  but that life is not worth living without it.
— Harvey Milk
It has never been  and never will be  easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair  even though they both lead to the same destination.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope  always hope.
— Mother Teresa
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
— Ouida
And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.
— Bible
Hope! Of all the ills that men endure  the only cheap and universal cure.
— Abraham Cowley
Our greatest good  and what we least can spare  is hope.
— John Armstrong
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
— Dr. Karl Menninger
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
— Bernie S. Siegel
We must have hope or starve to death.
— Pearl S. Buck
When hope is taken away from the people  moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
— Pearl S. Buck
Man can live about forty days without food  about three days without water  about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
— Hal Lindsey
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
— Pearl S. Buck
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
— Italian proverb
Faith walks simply  childlike  between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
— Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing  that ye may abound in hope.
— Bible
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
— Anonymous
My faith is important. I have nothing without it.
— Kathy Ireland
Hope is the belief  more or less strong  that joy will come  desire is the wish it may come.
— Sydney Smith
Hope is the parent of faith.
— C. A. Bartol
No hope  no action.
— Peter Levi
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
— Thomas Fuller
Hope arouses  as nothing else can arouse  a passion for the possible.
— William Sloane Coffin
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
— John Armstrong
Hope is the anchor of the soul  the stimulus to action  and the incentive to achievement.
— Anonymous
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work  and animates a man to do his utmost.
— Jeremy Collier
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action  while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
— Eric Hoffer
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
— Pliny the Elder
Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
— Matthew Prior
Hope is not a dream  but a way of making dreams become reality.
— L. J. Cardinal Suenens
Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
— Anonymous
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
— Anonymous
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
— William Shakespeare
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
— Johann von Goethe
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
— Emil Brunner
All shall be well  and all shall be well  and all manner of things shall be well.
— Julian of Norwich
If we were logical  the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings  and we have faith  and we have hope  and we can work.
— Jacques Cousteau
Clouds and darkness surround us  yet heaven is just  and the day of triumph will surely come  when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right  and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.
— Mary Todd Lincoln
There is no medicine like hope  no incentive so great  and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
— Orison Swett Marden
"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans  football fans  hockey fans  and gardeners.
— Robert Orben
Stars will blossom in the darkness  Violets bloom beneath the snow.
— Julia Dorr
Patience is the art of hoping.
— Vauvenargues
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
— Tertullian
All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
— Alexandre Dumas
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears  not to oust them.
— Vincent NcNabb
There is no hope unmingled with fear  and no fear unmingled with hope.
— Baruch Spinoza
I steer my bark with hope in my heart  leaving fear astern.
— Thomas Jefferson
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless  you are slamming the door in the face of God.
— Charles L. Allen
There are no hopeless situations  there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Hope never abandons you  you abandon it.
— George Weinberg
Other men see only a hopeless end  but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.
— Gilbert M. Beeken
Never despair.
— Horace
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
— A. J. Cronin
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
— Bertrand Russell
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
— Sir Walter Scott
Hope is like a road in the country  there was never a road  but when many people walk on it  the road comes into existence.
— Lin Yutang
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst  it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot  it regards problems  large or small  as opportunities  it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit  it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
— Anonymous
While there's life  there's hope.
— Terence
When you're depressed  the whole body is depressed  and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up  and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.
— O. Carl Simonton
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope  and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
— John F. Kennedy
Hope is the poor man's bread.
— Gary Herbert
Oh  what a valiant faculty is hope.
— Michel de Montaigne
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty  sickness and captivity would  without this comfort  be insupportable.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope is a risk that must be run.
— Georges Bernanos
Hope is an adventure  a going forward  a confident search for a rewarding life.
— Dr. Karl Menninger
Appetite  with an opinion of attaining  is called hope  the same  without such opinion  despair.
— Thomas Hobbes
Hope is a satisfaction unto itself  and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated.
— Dr. Fred O. Henker
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
— Ambrose Bierce
To hope is to enjoy.
— Jacques Delille
Hope  that star of life's tremulous ocean.
— Paul Moon James
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense  regardless of how it turns out.
— Vaclav Havel
Hope is a light diet  but very stimulating.
— Honore de Balzac
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
— G. K. Chesterton
Honor begets honor  trust begets trust  faith begets faith  and hope is the mainspring of life.
— Henry L. Stimson
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
— Pauli Murray
Hope ... is not a feeling  it is something you do.
— Katherine Paterson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul  And sings the tune without the words  And never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
Hope  like the gleaming taper's light  adorns and cheers our way  And still  as darker grows the night  emits a lighter ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Grass grows at last above all graves.
— Julia Dorr
The happy ending is our national belief.
— Mary McCarthy
Nobody really cares if you're miserable  so you might as well be happy.
— Cynthia Nelms
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
— Alexander Pope
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food  human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
— Petronius
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings  Kings it makes Gods  and meaner creatures kings.
— William Shakespeare
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
— Euripides
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Have hope. Though clouds environs now  And gladness hides her face in scorn  Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope  for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.
— Hafez
Faith  hope  and charity-if we had more of the first two  we'd need less of the last.
— Anonymous
In the face of uncertainty  there is nothing wrong with hope.
— O. Carl Simonton
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
— Gloria Steinem
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure  sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
— Orison Swett Marden
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me  and nothing before me but hope.
— Louis L'Amour
Hope sees the invisible  feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
— Anonymous
I always entertain great hopes.
— Robert Frost
To hope is not to demand.
— Anonymous
Hold your head high  stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
— Jesse Jackson
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable  Faith means believing the unbelievable  And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
— G. K. Chesterton
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
— Daniel Berrigan
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
— Martin Marty
In the night of death  hope sees a star  and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
— Dorothea Brande
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
— Mark Twain
We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
— Stevie Wonder
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
— Ross Parmenter
We all live under the same sky  but we don't all have the same horizon.
— Konrad Adenauer
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
— Anonymous
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool  it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy  they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.
— Sheila Ballantyne
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
— Solomon
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled  the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry  but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
— Bob Kail
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it  bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it  you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
— Dorothea Brande
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
— Cynthia Ozick
Dreams grow holy put in action  work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling  both are fruitless and in vain.
— Adelaide Proctor
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine  or to "image forth."
— Dane Rudhyar
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing  you will never get it.
— Charleszetta Waddles
To the sick  while there is life there is hope.
— Cicero
Abandon hope  all ye who enter here.
— Dante Alighieri
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams  a shadow annihilates them.
— George Eliot
Hope for the best  but prepare for the worst.
— English proverb
Youth fades  love droops  the leaves of friendship fall  A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hope says to us constantly  "Go on  go on " and leads us thus to the grave.
— Mme. de Maintenon
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
— Proverbs
Who against hope believed in hope.
— Romans
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
— Walter Scott
Hope is the poor man's bread.
— Thales
Prisoners of hope.
— Bible
You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
— English proverb
One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him  Three white feet - look well about him  Four white feet - go without him.
— Old English Rhyme
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
— William Shakespeare
Let me live in my house by the side of the road  And be a friend to man.
— Sam Walter Foss
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
— Richard Hovey
I was an hungered  and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger  and ye took me in.
— Matthew
For I  who hold sage Homer's rule the best  Welcome the coming  speed the going guest.
— Alexander Pope
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
— Bible
Houses are built to live in  and not to look on.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Fools build houses  and wise men buy them.
— English proverb
He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
— English proverb
A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.
— Matthew
A sudden  bold  and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
— Will Rogers
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
— Luigi Pirandello
I respect only those who resist me  but cannot tolerate them.
— Charles de Gaulle
I wish everybody would go back into the closet.
— Josefa Heifetz
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
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
— Agnes de Mille
One kind word can warm three winter months.
— Japanese saying
Outside  among your fellows  among strangers  you must preserve appearances  100 things you cannot do  but inside  the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.
— Joan Baez
The opinions which we hold of one another  our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent  save in appearance  but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
— Marcel Proust
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
— Maggie Kuhn
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature  or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason  mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity  which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.
— Joseph Addison
When the man is at home  his standing in society is well known and quietly taken  but when he is abroad  it is problematical  and is dependent on the success of his manners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you live next to the cemetery  you cannot weep for everyone.
— Old saying
Almost all of our relationships begin  and most of them continue  as forms of mutual exploitation  a mental or physical barter  to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
— W. H. Auden
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles  because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him  even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
— George Orwell
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
— Frank Swinnerton
I am a part of all that I have met.
— Lord Tennyson
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations  there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
— Marcel Proust
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them  but to be indifferent to them  that's the essence of inhumanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
— Albert Camus
A sense of duty is useful in work  but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked  not be endured with patient resignation.
— Bertrand Russell
The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
— Lewis Hastings
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Acquaintance  n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from  but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create  as it were  a new picture  a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest  for them  we in a strange sense wish to  and do  start life anew.
— Ann N. Bridge
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out  only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
— Goethe
Each of us keeps  battened down inside himself  a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially  but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
— Elizabeth Bowen
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time  through some experience that we have of our companion  or through some remark that he passes  he stands for a moment close to us  as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
— Albert Schweitzer
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
— Ken Keyes
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
— Eric Hoffer
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence  Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his  explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
— Arthur Bryant
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be  you do.
— Goethe
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
— Pope John XXIII
The more you let yourself go  the less others let you go.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men  living and dead  and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
— Albert Einstein
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone  to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions  to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
— Robert Frost
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others  if not more.
— Edward Noyes Westcott
If only there were evil people somewhere  insidiously committing evil deeds  and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
— Helen Keller
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
— Japanese proverb
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
— Havelock Ellis
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another  all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice  but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable  but that I was not very lovable myself.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe  with one trifling exception  is composed of others.
— John Andrew Holmes
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
— Abraham J. Heschel
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
— Sir Francis Bacon
I love my country better than my family  but I love humanity better than my country.
— Francois Fenelon
Wen you see a man in woe  Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do " "How's the world a-usin' you?"
— Sam Walter Foss
He held his seat  a friend to human race.
— Homer
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every human heart is human.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
After all there is but one race - humanity.
— George Moore
The world is my country  all mankind are my brethren  and to do good is my religion.
— Thomas Paine
Humanity is the Son of God.
— Theodore Parker
I am not an Athenian  nor a Greek  but a citizen of the world.
— Socrates
The age of chivalry has gone  the age of humanity has come.
— Charles Sumner
I am a man  I count nothing human foreign to me.
— Terence
Our true nationality is mankind.
— H. G. Wells
After crosses and losses  men grow humbler and wiser.
— Benjamin Franklin
'Umble we are  'umble we have been  'umble we shall ever be.
— Charles Dickens
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
— Benjamin Franklin
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
— John Ruskin
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex  she objects.
— Les Dawson
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
— Sally Bucko
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
— Eddie Albert
I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?
— Jerry Seinfeld
Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
— Frank Briggs
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over  the strings are still attached.
— Jacob Braude
My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine  too decent  too old.
— Grade Allen
Never get married in the morning  because you never know who you'll meet that night.
— Paul Hornung
When my wife was asked  "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered  "For richer."
— Anonymous
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
— Anonymous
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me  I can't remember why I got married.
— Anonymous
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
— Harold Coffin
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing  they marry later. For another thing  they die earlier.
— H. L. Mencken
A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.
— William Binger
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
— Oscar Wilde
A man should be taller  older  heavier  uglier and hoarser than his wife.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Men like cars  women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.
— Rita Rudner
Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.
— Rita Rudner
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
— Marion Smith
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
— Ogden Nash
A secretary must think like a man  act like a lady  look like a girl and work like a dog.
— Anonymous
Before I started working here  I drank  smoked  and used bad language. Thanks to this job  I now have good reason.
— Anonymous
If you talk to God  you are praying  if God talks to you  you have schizophrenia.
— Thomas Szasz
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
— Woody Allen
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
— Henny Youngman
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
— Anonymous
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.
— Marsha Dobb
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
— Hal Roach
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
— Anonymous
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
— Anonymous
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school  everybody hated me.
— Anonymous
There are no perfect people - except  of course  my wife's first husband.
— Anonymous
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't  whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
— John Updike
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
— Charles Lamb
He that jokes confesses.
— Italian proverb
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.
— J. J. Procter
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
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
— Peter McArthur
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
— James Thurber
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life  and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.
— Stephen Leacock
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
— Don Herold
Humour plays close to the big  hot fire  which is the truth  and the reader feels the heat.
— E. B. White
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
— Mark Van Doren
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So  for every ten Jews beating their breasts  God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
— Mel Brooks
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Novelist Peter de Vries  like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain  has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.
— Timothy Foote
Humour can be dissected  as a frog can  but the thing dies in the process.
— E. B. White
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
— Christian Morgenstern
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
— Karl Barth
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
— J. K. Galbraith
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
— Robert Frost
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
— Jack Herbert
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.
— Henry Rutherford Elliot
Humour is an affirmation of dignity  a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
— Romain Gary
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
— Peter Ustinov
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
— Carol Burnett
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
— Joseph Conrad
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top  with love and communication  in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain  it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel  so that we gain distance and through laughter  relief.
— Sara Davidson
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
— The Koran
You encourage a comic man too much  and he gets silly.
— Stephen Leacock
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good  or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle  but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
— Stephen Leacock
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
— Charles Lamb
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
— Anonymous
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
— Peter de Vries
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it  never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
— William Shakespeare
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
— Aldous Huxley
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
— Mel Brooks
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
— Douglas Bush
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh  at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
— Lenny Bruce
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over  and showing it principally in one spot.
— Josh Billings
He who laughs  lasts.
— Anonymous
We are all here for a spell  get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
— Jean Paul Richter
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
You can pretend to be serious  but you can't pretend to be witty.
— Sacha Guitry
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
— Stephen Leacock
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
— Robertson Davies
If thine enemy- be hungry  give him bread to eat.
— Proverbs
A hungry people listens not to reason  nor cares for justice  nor is bent by any prayers.
— Seneca
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
— William Shakespeare
All husbands are alike  but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
— Anonymous
A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.
— French proverb
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
— Honore de Balzac
Husbands  love your wives  even as Christ also loved the church  and gave himself for it.
— Ephesians
A man should be taller  older  heavier  uglier  and hoarser than his wife.
— E. W. Howe
Men are April when they woo  December when they wed.
— William Shakespeare
As the husband is  the wife is.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
— La Rochefoucauld
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
— William Hazlitt
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
The wolf was sick  he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well  a wolf once more was he.
— Walter Bower
Remember this: If you work for a man  in Heaven's name  work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter  work for him  speak well of him  stand by the institution 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 part of the institution do not condemn it.
— Elbert Hubbard
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy  the only evil that walks invisible.
— John Milton
The teeth are smiling  but is the heart?
— Congo proverb
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
— English proverb
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
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 Bismarck
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
— Oscar Wilde
Extremes meet  and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrite - mouth one way  belly 'nother way.
— Australian Aboriginal proverb
When the fox preaches  look to your geese.
— German proverb
I hope you have not been leading a double life  pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
— Oscar Wilde
Reasons are whores.
— Leonard Michaels
Saint abroad  and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
Every man is a hypocrite
— Frederick IV
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
— Matthew Henry
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
— La Rochefoucauld
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.
— Frederick Pollock
For parlour use  the vague generality is a lifesaver.
— George Ade
If anyone has a new idea in this country  there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
— Prince Philip
If you are possessed by an idea  you find it expressed everywhere  you even smell it.
— Thomas Mann
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
— Stanislaw Lec
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say  I think  that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
— Murray Kempton
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
— Sean O'Casey
Great ideas are not charitable.
— Henry de Montherlant
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous  since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
— George Santayana
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
— Brooks Atkinson
An idea is a feat of association  and the height of it is a good metaphor.
— Robert Frost
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.
— Anonymous
There is no adequate defence  except stupidity  against the impact of a new idea.
— Percy W. Bridgman