HOPE

Related Subjects: Desire, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Optimism, Wish

1. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.—Bible, Proverbs 13:12
   

2. Who against hope believed in hope.—Bible, Romans 4:18
   

3. We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.—Bible, 2 Corinthians 3:12
   

4. Hope to the end.—Bible, I Peter 1:13
   

5. There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.—Quoted by CLARE BOOTHE, Europe in the Spring
   

6. I live on hope and that I think do all
   Who come into this world.—ROBERT BRIDGES, The Growth of Love
   

7. Our hope is ever livelier than despair, our joy
   Livelier and more abiding than our sorrows are.—ROBERT BRIDGES, The Testament of Beauty
   

8. There is no place more delightful than hope.—CICERO, Epistolae
   

9. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.—DANTE, Inferno
   

10. The question was put to him, [Aristotle] what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Aristotle
    

11. "While there is life there's hope," he cried.—JOHN GAY, The Sick Man and the Angel
    

12. To the last moment of his breath,
    On hope the wretch relies;
    And even the pang preceding death
    Bids expectation rise.—GOLDSMITH, The Captivity
    

13. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
    Adorns and cheers our way;
    And still, as darker grows the night,
    Emits a brighter ray.—GOLDSMITH, The Captivity
    

14. There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.—E. W. HOWE, Country Town Sayings
    

15. The triumph of hope over experience.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

16. A Hope beyond the shadow of a dream.—KEATS, Endymion
    

17. Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
    And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.—KEATS, To Hope
    

18. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
    Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon,
    Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
    Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
    

19. So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear,
    Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
    Evil, be thou my good.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

20. Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, The World Before the Flood
    

21. A man will already be in no mean Paradise if at the hour of sunset a ray of good hope may fall upon him like harmonies of music.—JOHN MORLEY, Voltaire
    

22. Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.—PLAUTUS, Mostellaria
    

23. Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
    Man never is, but always to be, blest.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

24. It is hope alone that makes us willing to live.—Proverb
    

25. He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.—Proverb
    

26. A good hope is better than a bad possession.—Proverb
    

27. Fair be all thy hopes,
    And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

28. The miserable have no other medicine,
    But only hope.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

29. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
    Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

30. Past hope, past cure, past help!—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

31. Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

32. Full little knowest thou that hast not tride,
    What hell it is, in suing long to bide:
    To lose good dayes, that might be better spent;
    To waste long nights in pensive discontent;
    To speed today, to be put back tomorrow;
    To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.—EDMUND SPENSER, Mother Hubberds Tale
    

33. Never go gloomily, man with a mind!
    Hope is a better companion than fear.—MARTIN F. TUPPER, Cheer Up
    

34. Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies
    Deeply buried from human eyes.—WHITTIER, Maud Muller