John Hay famous quotes

03-25-2025

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
-- John Hay

#Evil #Liberty #Tyranny
Friends are the sunshine of life.
-- John Hay

#Relationship #Sunshine
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
-- John Hay

#Children #Thinking #Sight
Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
-- John Hay

#Men #Thinking #Age
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
-- John Hay

#Marriage #Worry #May
What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.
-- John Hay

#Love #Regret #Doe
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
-- John Hay

#Best Love #Men #Gossip
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
-- John Hay

#Friendship #Sunshine #Men
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.
-- John Hay

#Religion #Say Anything #Trying
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
-- John Hay

#Three #Diplomats #Crabs
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
-- John Hay

#Government #Matter #Mendacity
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.
-- John Hay

#Water #Tree #Waiting
At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.
-- John Hay

#Horse #Doors #Land
Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.
-- John Hay

#Thinking #World #Speech
Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
-- John Hay

#Flower #Rose #Break
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
-- John Hay

#Home #Luck #Cards
The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.
-- John Hay

#People #Forever #Lasts

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