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This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

I have read your book and much like it.
- Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas

I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about - to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life.
- Charlie Haden

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
- H.R. Haldeman

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognizeability.
- Robert Half

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
- Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
- Fridtjof Hansen

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
- John Hardwick

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
- Richard Harkness

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
- Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney J. Harris

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sydney J. Harris

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.
- Paul Hawken

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
- Coleman Hawking

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.
- F.A. Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
- F.A. Hayek

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
- William Hazlitt

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
- Hebrew Proverb

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
- Howard Hendricks

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
- Katherine Hepburn

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
- Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

Love and a cough cannot be hid.
- George Herbert

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. - Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Herodotus

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
- Don Herold

I never met anyone like him, and I don't expect to ever again. You see, Andy's gift was not his talent or his skills-it was his genius, the genius of what he dared.
- Judd Hirsch

If you don't ask "why this?" often enough, somebody will ask "why you?"
- Tom Hirshfield

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
- Adolf Hitler

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
- Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
- Adolf Hitler

The very first esential for success is a prepetually constant and regular employment of violence.
- Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
- Samuel Hoffenstein

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman

Hell is paved with good samaritans.
- William M. Holden

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
- John Andrew Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz

Justice is incidental to law and order.
- J. Edgar Hoover

You manage things; you lead people.
- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
- Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
- Kin Hubbard

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
- Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
- Shirley Hufstedler

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.
- Sigfried Hulzer

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
- Collis P. Huntingdon

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Hutchins

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley