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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Beauty
Kin Hubbard

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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Dishonesty
Kin Hubbard

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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Poverty and The Poor
Kin Hubbard

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Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
Sin
Kin Hubbard

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Peace
Kin Hubbard

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We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Voting
Kin Hubbard

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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Democracy
Langston Hughes

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Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
Army and Navy
Sir Richard Hull

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Life and Living
David Hume

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
Music
James G. Huneker

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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
People
Leigh Hunt

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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Aldous Huxley

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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Books - Reading
Thomas H. Huxley

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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Right and Rightness
Thomas H. Huxley

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Common Sense
Thomas H. Huxley

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Action
Thomas H. Huxley

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Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.
Listening
Roger G. Imhoff

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Action
Indian Proverb

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Life and Living
Indian Proverb

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Dean William R. Inge

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There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Sea
Irish Proverb

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Adversity
Washington Irving

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The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
Market
Italian Proverb

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Strategies
Andrew Jackson

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Epitaphs
Helen Hunt Jackson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun