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Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.

-- Jonathan S. Haas

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.

-- Fredrich Halm

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

-- John Harrigan

The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.

-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

-- Louise Hay

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

-- Helen Hayes

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

-- Cynthia Heimel

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

-- Cynthia Heimel

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

-- Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in Village Voice

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

-- Oliver Herford

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

-- John Heywood

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

-- M. Hirschfield

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.

-- Samuel Hoffenstein

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

-- Lisa Hoffman

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century B.C.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

-- Barbara Howar

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

-- Edgar Watson Howe

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

-- Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

-- Elbert Hubbard

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

-- Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

-- Victor Hugo

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

-- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

-- D. H. Lawrence