QUOTES

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.
Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

While there's life, there's hope.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 2

I can endure my own despair,
but not another's hope.
William Walsh