"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope." - Aristotle, Rhetoric

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

"If one truly had lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." - Eric Bentley

"Hope is a risk that must be run." - Georges Bernanos, Last Essays

"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope." - Thomas Carlyle

"Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords." - Samuel Johnson

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook." - Ben Jonson

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." - Arabian Proverb

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." - Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." - BIBLE, Proverbs 13:12

"Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure."
- ABRAHAM COWLEY, The Mistress

"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, Hope is the thing with feathers

"I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, speech (1892)

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler

"Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Hyperion

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All-too-Human

"Things which you don't hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope." - PLAUTUS, Mostellaria

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blest."
- ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man

"More are taken in by hope than by cunning." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maximsqk

"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." - Brunner, Emil