Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando—In nothing do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving health to men. Cic.
Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt: longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla—Men trust their eyes rather than their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. Sen.
Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere—By doing nothing men learn to do ill. Cato.
Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam 45 in suo—Men see better into other people's business than their own. Sen.
Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem—Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. Cic.
Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora—The more men have, the more they want. Justin.
Homini necesse est mori—Man must die. Cic.
Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis absumpseres—Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, i.e., known him so long as you might have done so. Pr.
Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum—Full of men, vacant of friends. Sen.
Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare—It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.
Hominum sententia fallax—The opinions of men are fallible. Ovid.
Homme assailli à demi vaincu—A man assailed is half overpowered. Fr.
Homme chiche jamais riche—A niggardly man 5 is always poor. Fr. Pr.
Homme d'affaires—A business man. Fr.
Homme d'esprit—A witty man. Fr.
Homme d'état—A statesman. Fr.
Homme d'honneur—A man of honour. Fr.
Homme instruit—A learned or literary man. 10 Fr.
Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et oculeus totus—A man more clear-sighted for business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all over. Apul.
Homo antiqua virtute ac fide—A man of the old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. Ter.
Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab omni materiæ concretione sejuncta—Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. Cic.
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet—A learned man has always riches in himself. Phædr.
Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur—A 15 man when angry is beside himself. Pub. Syr.
Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur—The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. Thomas à Kempis.
Homo homini aut deus aut lupus—Man is to man either a god or a wolf. Erasmus.
Homo is a common name to all men. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1.
Homo multarum literarum—A man of many letters, i.e., of extensive learning.
Homo multi consilii et optimi—A man always 20 ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.
Homo nullius coloris—A man of no party.
Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, / Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; / Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit—He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. Cic.
Homo solus aut deus aut demon—Man alone is either a god or a devil.
Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto—I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. Ter.
Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos—A 25 man dies as often as he loses his relatives. Pub. Syr.
Homo trium literarum—A man of three letters, i.e., FUR, "a thief." Plaut.
Homo unius libri—A man of one book. Thomas Aquinas' definition of a learned man.
Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito—What poor creatures we men are, when I think of it. Plaut.
Honest labour bears a lovely face. T. Dekker.
Honest men marry soon, wise men never. Sc. 30 Pr.
Honesta mors turpi vita potior—An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. Tac.
Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ—Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. Pr.
Honesta quædam scelera successus facit—Success makes some species of crimes honourable. Sen.
Honesta quam splendida—Honourable rather than showy. M.
Honestum non est semper quod licet—What is 35 lawful is not always honourable. L.
Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo laudatur, laudabile est sua natura—That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. Cic.
Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. Amer. Pr.
Honesty is the best policy. Pr.
Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. Pr.
Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be 40 an ill pennyworth. Sc. Pr.
Honi soit qui mal y pense—Evil be to him that evil thinks. Royal M. Fr.
Honnêtes gens—Upright people. Fr.
Honneur et patrie—Honour and country. M.
Honor Deo—Honour be to God. M.
Honor est præmium virtutis—Honour is the 45 reward of virtue. Cic.
Honor fidelitatis præmium—Honour is the reward of fidelity. M.
Honor sequitur fugientem—Honour follows him who flies from her. M.
Honores mutant mores—Honours change manners.
Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad studia gloria—Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. Cic.
Honour a physician with the honour due unto 50 him for the uses which ye may have of him, for the Lord hath created him. Ecclus.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. St. Peter.
Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows. Pr.
Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour is a mere scutcheon. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.
Honour is nobler than gold. Gael. Pr.
Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail 55 behind which the virtues fight more securely. G. H. Calvert.
Honour is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Colton.
Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. Emerson.
Honour to whom honour is due. St. Paul.
Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Honour won't patch. Gael. Pr. 60
Honourable (Ehrlich) is a word of high rank, and implies much more than most people attach to it. Arndt.
Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight. Sterne.
Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt. Goldsmith, of himself.
Honour's the moral conscience of the great. D'Avenant.
Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris—Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. La Font.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Bible. 5
Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Merry Wives, ii. 1.
Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip. Pr.
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker. Amer. Pr.
Hope is a waking man's dream. Pr. 10
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Johnson.
Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion. Haliburton.
Hope is the best part of our riches. Bovee.
Hope is the only good which is common to all men. Thales.
Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection 15 is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun. Jean Paul.
Hope never comes that comes to all. Milton.
Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas. Emerson.
Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Johnson.
Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure. Cowley.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; / 20 Man never is, but always to be, blest. Pope.
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Burns.
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Quoted by Swinburne.
Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope enjoyed. Rich. II., ii. 3.
Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing things. Goethe.
Hora e sempre—Now and always. M. 25
Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni, nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur—Hours and days, months and years, pass away, and time once past never returns. Cic.
Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta—In a moment of time comes sudden death or joyful victory. Hor.
Horas non numero nisi serenas—I mark no hours but the shining ones. Of a dial.
Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; / Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes—As ants never bend their way to empty barns, so no friend will visit departed wealth. Ovid.
Horresco referens—I shudder as I relate. Virg. 30
Horribile dictu—Horrible to relate.
Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent—Everywhere horror seizes the soul, and the very silence is dreadful. Virg.
Horror vacui—Abhorrence of a vacuum.
Hors de combat—Out of condition to fight. Fr.
Hors de propos—Not to the purpose. Fr. 35
Hortus siccus—A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.
Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur—These are encouraged by success; they prevail because they think they can. Virg.
Hospice d'accouchement—A maternity hospital. Fr.
Hospice d'allaitement—A foundling hospital. Fr.
Hospitality must be for service, not for show, 40 or it pulls down the host. Emerson.
Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum datur—The wife who is given in marriage to a man against her will becomes his enemy. Plaut.
Hostis honori invidia—Envy is honour's foe. M.
Hôtel de ville—A town-hall. Fr.
Hôtel Dieu—The house of God; the name of an hospital. Fr.
Household words. Hen. V., iv. 3. 45
Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without a light. Pr.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Bacon.
How are riches the means of happiness? In acquiring they create trouble, in their loss they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause of endless divisions amongst kindred! Hitopadesa.
How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation without end! Jean Paul.
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, / 50 With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend. Longfellow.
How beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust. Carlyle.
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! As You Like It, v. 2.
How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great. Carlyle, apropos to his life at Craigenputtock.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight! Young.
How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth, and state, / Can never make them eerie. Burns.
How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed? Confucius.
How can he be godly who is not cleanly? Pr.
How can man love but what he yearns to help? Browning.
How can we expect a harvest of thought 5 who have not had a seed-time of character? Thoreau.
How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. Goethe.
How charming is divine philosophy! Milton.
How creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors. Carlyle.
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness. B. R. Haydon.
How dire is love when one is so tortured; and 10 yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. Goethe.
How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower. Watts.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As though to breathe were life. Tennyson.
How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed! Mme. Necker.
How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.
How fast has brother followed / From sunshine 15 to the sunless land. Wordsworth.
How few think justly of the thinking few; / How many never think, who think they do! Jane Taylor.
How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour! Thomas à Kempis.
How forcible are right words! Bible.
How fortunate beyond all others is the man who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to cast away his whole preceding life! Goethe.
How full of briers is this working-day world! 20 As You Like It, i. 3.
How glorious a character appears when it is penetrated with mind and soul. Goethe.
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul, and the senses for ever in joy! Browning.
How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! Gay.
How happy is he born or taught / That serveth not another's will; / Whose armour is his honest thought, / And simple truth his utmost skill. Sir Henry Wotton.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / 25 The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Pope.
How happy is the prince who has counsellors near him who can guard him against the effects of his own angry passions; their names shall be read in golden letters when the history of his reign is perused. Scott.
How happy should we be ... / If we from self could rest, / And feel at heart that One above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, / Is working for the best! Anstice.
How hard it is (for the Byron, for the Burns), whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to "take no counsel with flesh and blood," and instead of living and writing for the day that passes over them, live and write for the eternity that rests and abides over them! Carlyle.
How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again! Anon.
How hardly shall they who have riches enter 30 into the kingdom of God! Jesus.
How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester. 2 Hen. IV., v. 5.
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil! Carlyle.
How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All? Jean Paul.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning. Swift.
How little do the wantonly or idly officious 35 think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings! Burns.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid.
How long halt ye between two opinions? Bible.
How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd! Burns.
How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown! Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.
How many causes that can plead for themselves 40 in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter! Carlyle.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! Middleton.
How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day! Rousseau.
How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Holmes.
How many people make themselves abstract 45 to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. Joubert.
How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection! Mer. of Venice, v. 1.
How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom! Ter.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Cowper.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Bible.
How much better it is to weep at joy than to 5 joy at weeping! Much Ado, i. 4.
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Junius.
How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. Carlyle.
How much the wife is dearer than the bride! Lyttelton.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. Jean Paul.
How noble is heroic insight without words in 10 comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight! Carlyle.
How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will. Carlyle.
How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want! Spenser.
How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.
How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable? Carlyle.
How poor are they that have not patience! / 15 What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Othello, ii. 3.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Pope, after Homer.
How quick to know, but how slow to put in practice, is the human creature! Goethe.
How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object! 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.
How rarely reason guides the stubborn 20 choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts the suppliant voice. Johnson.
How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship is like the idolatry of barbarous nations, who can see the noonday splendour of the sun without emotion, but who, when he is in eclipse, come forward with hymns and cymbals to adore him. Canning.
How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But none enquire if good he be or no. Herrick.
How sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs! Dante.
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Young.
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or 25 draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life? Emerson.
How shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? Carlyle.
How shall we know whether you are in earnest, if the deed does not accompany the word? Schiller.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child! King Lear, i. 4.
How small a part of time they share / That are so wondrous sweet and fair! E. Waller.
How small, of all that human hearts endure, / 30 That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson.
How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own? Thomas à Kempis.
How should thy virtue be above the shocks and shakings of temptation, when even the angels kept not their first estate, and man in Paradise so soon fell from innocence? Thomas à Kempis.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears! Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
How soon "not now" becomes "never!" Luther.
How sour sweet music is, when time is broke 35 and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. Rich. II., v. 5.
How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose to grace harmony! Much Ado, ii. 3.
How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from a stranger's mouth! Goethe.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.
How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done! King John, iv. 2.
How the world wags! As You Like It, ii. 7. 40
How they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven! Carlyle, on the stars.
How use doth breed habit in a man! Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.
How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness denied / To aught but virtue! Shelley.
How we clutch at shadows (in this dream-world) as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake! Carlyle.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / 45 Seem to me all the uses of this world. Ham., i. 2.
How well he's read, to reason against reading! Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. Carlyle.
How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful. Shelley.
How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too! Decay of Piety.
How wretched is the man that hangs on by the favours of the great! Burns.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble 5 to be good. / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.
However, an old song, though to a proverb an instance of insignificance, is generally the only coin a poet has to pay with. Burns.
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. La Roche.
However far a man goes, he must start from his own door. Pr.
However varied the forms of destiny, the same element are always present. Schopenhauer.
Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved 10 with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds traverse the axis of the earth. Schiller.
Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite—Come near me all in order, and I will convince you that you are mad, every one. Hor.
Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis—This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour. Nep., of Themistocles.
Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque ageret—This man's genius was so versatile, so equal to every pursuit, that you would pronounce him to have been born for whatever thing he was engaged on. Livy, on the elder Cato.
Human action is a seed of circumstances (Verhängnissen) scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. Schiller.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, 15 elude the barriers of system. George Eliot.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Swift.
Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity. Gen. Lee.
Human creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will. Carlyle.
Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Sen.
Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the 20 exact summary of human worth. Carlyle.
Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. W. Winter.
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. Greville.
Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. S. Osgood.
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. Johnson.
Human life is more governed by fortune than 25 by reason. Hume.
Human nature in its fulness is necessarily human; without love, it is inhuman; without sense (nous), inhuman; without discipline, inhuman. Ruskin.
Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence, but a spirit / Diffused through time and space. Wordsworth.
Human nature (Menschheit) we owe to father and mother, but our humanity (Menschlichkeit) we owe to education. Weber.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Luther.
Human society is made up of partialities. 30 Emerson.
Humani nihil alienum—Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. M.
Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel—Be humanity evermore our goal. Goethe.
Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque pœnas oppetit superbiæ—He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. Phædr.
Humanity is about the same all the world over. Donn Piatt.
Humanity is better than gold. Goldsmith. 35
Humanity is constitutionally lazy. J. G. Holland.
Humanity is great but men are small. Börne.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul.
Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured of his sores will Dives be safe. Celia Burleigh.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity 40 of a man. Adam Smith.
Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est—It is natural to love, and it is natural also to forgive. Plaut.
Humanum est errare—To err is human.
Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. St. Augustine.
Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. Lowell.
Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident—The 45 humble are in danger when those in power disagree. Phædr.
Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead. Collier.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. Selden.
Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. Thomas à Kempis.
Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. La Roche.
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. La Roche.
Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. Jeremy Collier.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life. Arliss' Lit. Col.
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. Confucius.
Humility, that low, sweet root / From which 5 all heavenly virtues shoot. Moore.
Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. Carlyle.
Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.
Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not. Coleridge.
Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. Henry Giles.
Humour is properly the exponent of low 10 things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. Carlyle.
Humour is the mistress of tears. Thackeray.
Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. Ruskin.
Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. Pr.
Hunger is a good cook. Gael. Pr. 15
Hunger is the best sauce. Pr.
Hunger will break through stone walls. Pr.
Hungry bellies have no ears. Pr.
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. Wordsworth.
Hunters generally know the most vulnerable 20 part of the beast they pursue by the care which every animal takes to defend the side which is weakest. Goldsmith.
Hunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. Johnson.
Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios—To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. Sp. Pr.
Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. Pr.
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly. Ham., i. 2.
Hypotheses non fingo—I frame no hypotheses. 25 Sir Isaac Newton.
[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]—Justice is simple, truth easy. Lycurgus.
Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt—Hypotheses are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep. Goethe.
Hysteron proteron—The last first, or the cart before the horse. Gr.
I am a man / More sinned against than sinning. King Lear, iii. 2.
I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look 30 on't again I dare not. Macb., ii. 2.
I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. Hazlitt.
I am always as happy as I can be in meeting a man in whose society feelings are developed and thoughts defined. Goethe.
I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob—people who have nothing to lose. Goethe.
I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way / Among the thorns and dangers of the world. King John, iv. 3.
I am as free as Nature first made man, / Ere 35 the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Dryden.
I am black, but I am not the devil. Pr.
I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains. Johnson.
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Sir Henry Wotton.
I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.
I am convinced that the Bible always becomes 40 more beautiful the better it is understood, that is, the better we see that every word which we apprehend in general and apply in particular had a proper, peculiar, and immediately individual reference to certain circumstances, certain time and space relations, i.e., had a specially direct bearing on the spiritual life of the time in which it was written. Goethe.
I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. Goldsmith.
I am fortune's fool. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe.
I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute; / From the centre all round to the sea, / I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Cowper.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the 45 Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self. Luther.
I am neither so weak as to fear men, so proud as to despise them, or so unhappy as to hate them. Marmontel.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.
I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. Sir P. Sidney.
I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But as you know me all, a plain blunt man, / That loves my friend. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! / 50 For then 'tis like I should forget myself. King John, iii. 4.
I am not what I am. Twelfth Night, iii. 1; Othello, i. 1.
I am nothing if not critical. Othello, ii. 1.
"I am searching for a man." Diogenes, going about Athens by day with a lit lantern.
I am Sir Oracle, / And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion 5 will make a cloak. Sir W. Waller.
I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. Emerson.
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty; I like their delicacy; I like their vivacity; and I like their silence. Johnson.
I and time against any two. Philip of Spain.
I augur better of a youth who is wandering on a path of his own than of many who are walking aright upon paths which are not theirs. Goethe.
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. 10 Byron.
I believe in great men, but not in demigods. Bovee.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world than in following our own inclinations. Lady Mary Montagu.
I believe there are few persons who, if they please to reflect on their past lives, will not find that had they saved all those little sums which they have spent unnecessarily they might at present have been masters of a competent fortune. Eustace Budgell.
I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible that you may be wrong. Cromwell.
I bide my time. M. 15
I can but trust that good shall fall / At last—far off—at last, to all. Tennyson.
"I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?" 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
I can count a stocking-top while a man 's getting 's tongue ready; an' when he out wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. George Eliot.
I can teach you to command the devil, / And I can teach you to shame the devil, / By telling truth. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: 20 believe life; it teaches better than book and orator. Goethe.
I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue.... It cannot be spared or left behind, but it hindereth the march. Bacon.
I cannot hide what I am; I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. Much Ado, i. 3.
I cannot love thee as I ought, / For love reflects the thing beloved; / My words are only words, and move / Upon the topmost froth of thought. Tennyson.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Milton.
I cannot think of any character below the 25 flatterer, except he that envies him. Steele.
I can't work for nothing, and find thread. Pr.
I care not though the cloth of state should be / Not of rich Arras, but mean tapestry. George Herbert.
I charge thee, fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the angels. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow / To join the brimming river, / For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. Tennyson.
I contented myself with endeavouring to make 30 your home so easy that you might not be in haste to leave it. Lady Montagu (to her daughter).
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Ham., i. 4.
I could have better spared a better man. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.
I could not but smile at a woman who makes her own misfortunes and then deplores the miseries of her situation. Goldsmith.
I count life just a stuff / To try the soul's strength on. Browning.
I cuori fanciulli non vestone a bruno—A child's 35 heart wears no weeds. B. Zendrini.
I danari del comune sono come l'acqua benedetta, ognun ne piglia—Public money is like holy water; everybody helps himself to it. It. Pr.
I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more, is none. Macb., i. 7.
I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour. Burns.
I, demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, / Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias—Go, madman, and run over the savage Alps to please schoolboys, and become the subject of declamation. Juv., of Hannibal.
I desire no future that will break the ties of 40 the past. George Eliot.
I die by the help of too many physicians. Alexander the Great.
I do but sing because I must, / And pipe but as the linnets sing. Tennyson.
I do know of these / That therefore only are reputed wise / For saying nothing. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
I do know, / When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows. Ham., i. 3.
I do not like "but yet," it does allay / The 45 good precedence; fie upon "but yet:" / "But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth / Some monstrous malefactor. Ant. and Cleop., ii. 5.
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. Goldsmith.
I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.
I do not need philosophy at all. Goethe.
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. Falkland.
"I don't care," is a deadly snare. Pr.
I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. As You Like It, iii. 2.
I esteem that wealth which is given to the worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed; the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not whom. Hitopadesa.
I fatti sono maschii, le parole femine—Deeds are masculine, words feminine. It. Pr.
I favoriti dei grandi oltre all' oro di regali, 5 e l'incenso delle lodi, tocca loro anche la mirra della maldicenza—The favourites of the great, besides the gold of gifts and the incense of flattery, must also partake of the myrrh of calumny. It. Pr.
I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. Saadi.
I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way. Macb., i. 5.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
I find nonsense singularly refreshing. Talleyrand.
I for ever pass from hand to hand, / And each 10 possessor thinks me his own land. / All of them think so, but they all are wrong; / To none but Fortune only I belong. Anon., of a field.
I found Rome brick, I left it marble. Augustus Cæsar.
I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie blue. Burns.
"I go at last out of this world, where the heart must either petrify or break." Chamfort, at his last moments.
I go through my appointed daily stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road. Frederick the Great.
I gran dolori sono muti—Great griefs are dumb. 15 It. Pr.
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. Emerson.
I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong; (but) there is a class of persons to whom, by all spiritual affinity, I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be. Emerson.
I guadagni mediocri empiono la borsa—Moderate profits fill the purse. It. Pr.
I had as lief not be, as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
I had better never see a book than be warped 20 by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. Emerson.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, / Than such a Roman. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.
"I had rather be first here than second in Rome." Cæsar, in an insignificant townlet.
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven (planets), revolving round the sun, than the first among five (moons) revolving round Saturn. Goethe.
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends, the Talmud, and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. Bacon.
I had rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition 25 than in air rarified to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief. Jean Paul.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. As You Like It, iv. 1.
I had rather people laugh at me while they instruct me than praise me without benefiting me. Goethe.
I hae a penny to spend, / There—thanks to naebody; / I hae naething to lend—/ I'll borrow frae naebody. Burns.
I hate a style that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality. Shenstone.
I hate bungling as I do sin, but particularly 30 bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people. Goethe.
I hate ingratitude more in a man / Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, / Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption / Inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night, iii. 1.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. Merry Wives, iii. 5.
I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear. Richardson.
I have all I have ever enjoyed. Bettine.
I have always been a quarter of an hour 35 before my time, and it has made a man of me. Nelson.
I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. Burns.
I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. Judge Haliburton.
I have been reasoning all my life, and find that all argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. Colman.
I have been tempted by opportunity, and seconded by accident. Marmontel.
I have been too much occupied with things 40 themselves to think either of their beginning or their end. Goethe.
I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Macb., i. 7.
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself. Montesquieu.
I have, God wot, a largë field to ear; / And weakë the oxen in my plough. Chaucer.
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. Ward Beecher.
I have known some men possessed of good 45 qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within. (?)
I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. St. Paul.
I have little knowledge which I find not some way useful to my highest ends. Baxter.
I have lost the ring, but I have my finger still. It. and Sp. Pr.
I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast (impatience). Calvin.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. Montaigne.
I have no idea of the courage that braves Heaven. Burns.
I have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of men. Carlyle.
I have no other but a woman's reason; / I 5 think him so because I think him so. Two Gent. of Ver., i. 2.
I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent. Macb., i. 7.
I have no words, / My voice is in my sword. Macb., v. 7.
I have saved the bird in my bosom, i.e., kept my secret. Pr.
I have seen some nations, like overloaded asses, / Kick off their burdens, meaning the higher classes. Byron.
I have seldom known any one who deserted 10 truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. Paley.
I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die. Rich. III., v. 4.
I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Ham., i. 2.
I have this great commission, / From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts / In any breast of strong authority, / To look into the blots and stains of right. King John, ii. 1.
I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. Ham., iii. 2.
I hear, yet say not much, but think the more. 15 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. Ham., ii. 2.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession. Bacon.
I hold it cowardice / To rest mistrustful where a noble heart / Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. 3 Hen. VI.
I hold it truth, with him who sings / To one clear harp in divers tones, / That men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; / 20 A stage, where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
I hope I don't intrude. Paul Pry.
I humbly trust I should not change my opinions and practice, though it rained garters and coronets as the reward of apostasy. Havelock.
I jouk (duck aside) beneath misfortune's blows / As well's I may; / Sworn foe to sorrow, care, or prose, / I rhyme away. Burns.
I know but of one solid objection to absolute monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man adequate to the office. Fielding.
I know enough to hold my tongue, but not 25 to speak. Pr.
I know no evil death can show, which life / Has not already shown to those who live / Embodied longest. Byron.
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding and yet there is no one vice more common. Steele.
I know no judgment of the future but by the past. Patrick Henry.
I know nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. Burke.
I know only one thing sweeter than making a 30 book, and that is to project one. Jean Paul.
I know that dancin' 's nonsense; but if you stick at everything because its nonsense, you wonna go far in this life. George Eliot.
"I know that it is in me, and out it shall come." Sheridan to his friends over their disappointment at the failure of his maiden speech.
I know that my Redeemer liveth. Job, in the Bible.
I know that nothing is mine but the thought that flows tranquilly out of my soul, and every gracious (günstige) moment which a loving Providence (Geschick) permits me thoroughly (von Grund aus) to enjoy. Goethe.
I labour, and you get the pearl. Talmud. 35
I let every one follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. Goethe.
I like a good hater. Johnson.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. Johnson.
I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me; and to me / High mountains are a feeling. Byron.
I look upon an able statesman out of business 40 like a huge whale, that will endeavour to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with. Steele.
I love a hand that meets mine own with a grasp that causes some sensation. Mrs. Osgood.
I love everything that's old—old friends, old tunes, old manners, old books, old wine. Goldsmith.
I love God and little children. Jean Paul.
I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed. Hen. VIII., ii. 2.
I love my friends well, but myself better. 45 Pr.
I love sometimes to doubt, as well as to know. Dante.
I love / The name of honour more than I fear death. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
I love to browse in a library. Johnson.
I'll make assurance doubly sure, / And take a bond of fate. Macb., iv. 1.
I made all my generals out of mud. Napoleon. 50
I make the most of my enjoyments; and as for my troubles, I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. Southey.
I might have my hand full of truth, and open only my little finger. Fontenelle.
I mourn not those who lose their vital breath; / But those who, living, live in fear of death. Lucillus.
I must be cruel, only to be kind. Ham., iii. 4.
"I must sleep now." Byron's last words. 55
I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work. Jesus.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone. Scipio Africanus.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men. George Eliot.
I'm not one of those who can see the cat i' the dairy an' wonder what she's come after. George Eliot.
I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, / E'en to a deil, / To skelp an' scaud (scald) puir dogs like me, / An' hear us squeel. Burns.
I never could believe that Providence had 5 sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. Richard Rumbold.
I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. Browning.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. Carlyle.
I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. Thackeray.
I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. Lord Burleigh.
I never knew any man in my life who could 10 not bear another's misfortunes perfectly as a Christian. Pope.
I never saw, heard, or read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Swift.
I never whisper'd a private affair / Within the hearing of cat or mouse, / No, not to myself in the closet alone, / But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house; / Everything came to be known. Tennyson.
I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. Goethe.
I picciol cani trovano, ma i grandi hanno la lepre—The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. It. Pr.
I pick up favourite quotations and store them 15 in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of life; to life itself, / With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose." Burns.