H. H. Munro quote: "Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance"

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO

Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Important things are not things.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Respect, don't suspect.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa...
H. JANICKI

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
H. POWERS

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le...
H MATHEWS

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
H. STEIN

The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
H. OGILVIE

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.
H. BERGH

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the ...
TRIPLE H

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
H. MATHEWS

Money is the grease that lubricates the engine of life. Too much won't take you further, but with to...
H ROSANO

The most boring and fruitless conversations are those where they all agree with you
H ROSANO

A book understood fits into one page
H ROSANO

what separates humans from animals is the ability to think beyond basic instincts. And yet, some ref...
H ROSANO

Corporate finance is more about cosmetics than it is to fitness
H ROSANO

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 C...
TRIPLE H

It kills me to know that to save your soul, i must break your heart.
H WEISS

Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go...
ALFA H

I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of m...
ALFA H

They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear,...
ALFA H

However this life is unbalanced
MARK H

Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me.
H. MIDORIKAWA

Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that tak...
ALFA H

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
H. BARBUSSE

The reward of a teacher is the smiles of today and yesterday, the grateful hearts of those young sou...
H GREYLING

I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance ...
ALFA H

How to raise sons who respect women:
Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect your...
ALFA H

So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d alw...
H. ALAZHAR

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.
H. HEIMLICH

Globalization making all economics behave like a flock of birds
H ROSANO

Breathe to clear the mind and body too of impulsiveness.
BATHILDA H.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.
ALFA H

I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It ju...
ALFA H

I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner.
ALFA H

She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.
ALFA H

I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes.
TRIPLE H

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters an...
TRIPLE H

I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told...
ALFA H

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to,...
TRIPLE H

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
H. SCHACHTEL

How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
ALFA H

I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applau...
ALFA H

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
ALFA H

Aspire to never have a boss.
H. MURRAY

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.
H. MORTARA

Turn your scars into stars.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MENCKEN

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.
DAVID H. MURDOCK

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKEN

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

Improvement begins with I.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yours...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Materialism is an identity crisis.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real ques...
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
BRYANT H. MCGILL

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

We all know that a church is not a building.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the r...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire a...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hur...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inesca...
BRYANT H. MCGILL

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. LAWRENCE

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY

It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES

I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES

Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES

My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES

How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES

As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN

All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN

Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
WENDELL H. FORD

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularl...
WENDELL H. FORD

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
HAROLD H. GREENE

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the m...
HAROLD H. GREENE

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlie...
HAROLD H. GREENE

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a ...
HAROLD H. GREENE

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people tha...
HAROLD H. GREENE

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downsta...
HAROLD H. GREENE

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the ...
HAROLD H. GREENE

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not d...
HAROLD H. GREENE

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rio...
HAROLD H. GREENE

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so a...
HAROLD H. GREENE

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
HAROLD H. GREENE

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
HAROLD H. GREENE

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people...
HAROLD H. GREENE

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
HAROLD H. GREENE

With competition everyone has to try harder.
HAROLD H. GREENE

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and th...
J. H. WYMAN

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've...
J. H. WYMAN

There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrat...
J. H. WYMAN

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
J. H. WYMAN

'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
J. H. WYMAN

What's a hero if not for its journey.
J. H. WYMAN

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If t...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to thi...
MARTIN H. FISCHER

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed li...
W. H. AUDEN

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This i...
H. RAP BROWN

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. AUDEN

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the othe...
W. H. AUDEN

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles o...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
KENNETH H. COOPER

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.
KENNETH H. COOPER

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong mus...
KENNETH H. COOPER

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time...
KENNETH H. COOPER

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
KENNETH H. COOPER

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance

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