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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
– Albert Einstein
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
– Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
A hundred years for now? All new people.
– Anne Lamott
A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
– Alexandre Dumas
A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no ornaments.
– The Hitopadesa
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
– Helen Rowland
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
– James Thurber
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
– Don Marquis
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
– William Shakespeare
A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.
– Marysarah Quinn
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
– Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tzu
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
– H. L. Mencken
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
– Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
– Robert Frost
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.
– Addison
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.

– William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
– Washington Irving
A kind word is like a spring day.
– Russian Proverb
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
– William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
– Marlene Dietrich
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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