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  Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
 ~hope quotes by Samuel Johnson

  The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
 ~inspirational sayings about Listening quotes by Andre Gide

  Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
 ~hope quotes by Arthur Miller

  Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
 ~famous quotes about Hope by Victor Hugo

  He who has health has hope: he who has hope, has everything
 ~hope sayings by Proverb

  Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
 ~hope quotes by Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988

  Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
 ~inspirational sayings about Hope quotes by Vincent McNabb

  I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
 ~hope quotes by H.A. Overstreet

  We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true
 ~famous quotes about Dreams by Woodrow Wilson

  Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
 ~hope sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

  Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
 ~hope quotes by Author Unknown

  If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
 ~inspirational sayings about Death quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

  Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
 ~hope quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

  Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
 ~famous quotes about Adversity by Francis Bacon

  Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
 ~hope sayings by Dan Bennett

   As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them
 ~hope quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

   It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
 ~good sayings about Compliments by John Addington Symonds

   I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
 ~hope quotes by Ogden Nash

   The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
 ~motivational quotes about Cats sayings by Carl van Vechten

   The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology
 ~hope sayings by Red Auerbach

   A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
 ~hope quotes by Branch Rickey, May 1960

   Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
 ~good sayings about Flowers by Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey

   There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
 ~hope quotes by Michel de Montaigne

   The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
 ~motivational quotes about Perspective sayings by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   Some pursue happiness, others create it.
 ~hope sayings by Author Unknown

   Life is like riding a bicycle, you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling.
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   A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.
 ~good sayings about Kisses by Author Unknown

   Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
 ~hope quotes by Val Doonican

   We are immature, as long as we think we are an exception to the law of averages.
 ~motivational quotes about Self Confidence sayings by

   When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.
 ~hope sayings by Mac O'Grady

   Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
 ~hope quotes by Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

   An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
 ~good sayings about Sex by Aldous Huxley

   If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
 ~hope quotes by Rita Mae Brown

   You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
 ~motivational quotes about Simplicity sayings by Vernon Howard

   Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
 ~hope sayings by Samuel Johnson

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