H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.”
“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”
“Happy is he who is healthy.”
“Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”
“Happy is he who trusts is in God, the Heavenly Father.”
“Happy is he whose heart is healed.”
“Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.”
Source: The Plays of Euripides
“Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German
“Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.”
“Happy is not the one who's always chasing pleasure, but one who forgets all pleasure helping another grow.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.”
Source: Wishful Drinking
“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
“Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ's body”
Source: Of Domestical Duties
“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”
“Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.”
“Happy is the bride the sun shines on.”
“Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.”
“Happy is the day whose history is not written down.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Happy is the heart of the king when gifts come to him.
And when every foreign land [comes],
that is our success, that is our fortune.
What shall we do about it ? All is ruin!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain”
“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.”
“Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.”
“Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.”
“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”
“Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.”
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!”
Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
“Happy is the man who finds a walking companion who knows how to keep silence and when to talk, who is in unison not only with yourself but with all the vibrant chords of nature around”
“Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!”
Source: The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
“Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.”
“Happy is the man who is nothing.”
“Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.”
“Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!”
“Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
Happy the man.”
Source: The Junk-man, and Other Poems
“Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience”
“Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.”
“Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.”
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.”
“Happy is the nation without a history.”
“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
“Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.”
“Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.”
“Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes