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"Hope for the best — prepare for the Worst."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)"
"A horseǃ a horseǃ My kingdom for a horseǃ (William Shakespeare)"
"A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse."
"Don't change horses in midstream."
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
"I'll hear it from the horse's mouth."
"It's a good horse that never stumbles."
"Look not a gift horse in the mouth."
"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
"A golden bit does not make the horse any better. (Strauss, 1998 p. 52)"
"Hospitality: the virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. (Ambrose Bierce)"
"All things are soon prepared in a well ordered house."
"My house is my castle. (Edward Coke)"
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
"The ignorant always adore what they cannot understand."
"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results."
"Don't have too many irons in the fire. (16th century) (Citatboken)"
"Iron sharpens iron. (Whiting, 1997 p. 235)"
"It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"
"If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well."
"Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 249)"
"Hasty judgment leads to repentance. (Strauss, 1994 p. 196)"
"Justice pleaseth few in their own house."
"Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing."
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
"The king can do no wrong. (17th century)"
"Learning is the eye of the mind."
"Knowledge is power. (17th Century)"
"A good mind possesses a kingdom. (Strauss, 1998 p. 58)"
"'If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."
"Faint heart never won fair lady."
"It ain't over till the fat lady sings."
"Joan is as good as my lady in the dark."
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"The land of the free, and the home of the brave. (Francis Scott Key])"
"It's a long lane that has no turning."
"That's not good language that all understand not."
"He laughs best who laughs last."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."
"To be on one's last legs. (16th century)"
"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. (Francis Bacon)"
"A lie can go halfway around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."
"Life is what you make of it."
"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."
"Look on the sunny side of life."
"The best things in life are free."
"Like cures like. (Strauss, 1994 p. 648)"