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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


701. A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

702. A high windy gallows to him ---Irish Curse

703. A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

704. A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests Or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

705. A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. --Will Rogers

706. A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. --Austin O'Malley

707. A HOME is built of loving deeds,

708. A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.--Ethiopian proverb

709. A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. --Austin O'Malley

710. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

711. A honeymoon should be like a table...four bare legs and no drawers.

712. A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.

713. A horse baared don't look him the tooth.

714. A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

715. A horse has four legs, yet it often falls.

716. A horse stumbles that has four legs.

717. A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

718. A house built by the wayside is either too high or too low.

719. <font color="green">t color="#FFOOOO"><LI></font>A house cannot be made without a ladder.

720. A house divided against itself cannot stand. --Abraham Lincoln

721. A HOUSE is built of logs and stone,

722. A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

723. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. --Margaret Fuller

724. A house is not a home.

725. A house with many guests will be eaten up and dishonored.

726. A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

727. A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

728. A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. --Christopher Morley

729. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

730. A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

731. A humble ignorant man who serves God is better than a proud scholar who observes the movements of the heavens and never gives a thought to his soul.

732. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

733. A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. --Chinese Proverb

734. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

735. A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

736. A hungry man is an angry man.

737. A hungry man is not a free man. --Adlai E. Stevenson

738. A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. --Seneca

739. A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

740. A husband expects his wife to be perfect...and to understand why he's not.

741. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

742. A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke.

743. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland

744. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

745. A husband should never question his wife's judgement. Look whom she married!

746. A hut is a palace to a poor man

747. A hut is a palace to the poor man (Irish)

748. A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. --Adlai E. Stevenson

749. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

750. A job worth doing is worth complaining about.

751. A job worth doing is worth obsessing over.

752. A joke a day keeps the doctor away

753. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

754. A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. --Napoleon Bonaparte

755. A Journey of 1,000 miles begins with a call to your auto club.

756. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

757. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese Proverb

758. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu

759. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

760. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ Risen.

761. A judge should be about sixty, clean shaven, with white hair, china-blue eyes, and suffer from hemorrhoids so that he will have that concerned look.--Anonymous

762. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

763. A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. --Herbert Spencer

764. A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

765. A kerry shower is of twenty-four hours

766. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

767. A kind man said to her, When I look at you, time stands still.

768. A KING does it with his official seal

769. A king is one who has "few things to desire and many things to fear." --Francis Bacon

770. A king without learning is but a crowned ass.

771. A king's castle is his home.

772. A kings son is not nobler than his food.

773. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. --Mistinguette

774. A kiss can beautify souls hearts and thoughts.

775. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. --Ingrid Bergman

776. A kiss is a method of, cunningly devised, for the mutual prevention of speech at a time whenwords are superfluous.

777. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

778. A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. --Edmond Rostand

779. A kiss? the renunciation of the heart when one is no longer alone.

780. A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

781. A knight's move near the edge of the board cannot be cut. -- Bill Taylor

782. A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

783. A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

784. A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

785. A lame traveller should get out betimes.

786. A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. --Abram Joseph Ryan

787. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

788. A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is,they work by being declared to work.

789. A large part of virtue consists in good habits." - Barbara Paley

790. A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

791. A laugh is a smile that bursts.

792. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

793. A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. -- Henry Ward Beecher

794. A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

795. A lawyer never goes to law himself.

796. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.

797. A lazy youth, a lousy age.

798. A leader is a dealer in hope. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

799. A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Less good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear and despise him. Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves." -- Lao-Tzu

800. A leader is best When people hardly know he exists, Not as good when people obey and acclaim him, Worst when they despise him.


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