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| A good hope is better than a bad possession. | 1 |
| Always you are to be rich next year. | 2 |
| As broken a ship as this has come to land. | 3 |
| As long as there is life there is hope. | 4 |
| Daylight will peep through a small hole. | 5 |
| Do not hang by one hope only. Modern Greek. | 6 |
| Feed famished hope with the cold alms of pity. Aaron Hill. | 7 |
| Great hopes make great men. | 8 |
| He feeds himself on false hopes. | 9 |
| He gains much who loses a vain hope. Italian. | 10 |
| He may hope for the best that is prepared for the worst. | 11 |
| He that hopes no good fears no ill. | 12 |
| He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. | 13 |
| He who travels with hope has poverty for his coachman. German. | 14 |
| Hope and expectation are a fool’s income. Danish. | 15 |
| Hope and joy are the daughters of prosperity and grief of adversity. Petrarch. | 16 |
| Hope and hang on when you are wrecked. Century Magazine. | 17 |
| Hope and strive is the way to thrive. | 18 |
| Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Bible. | 19 |
| Hope for the best. | 20 |
| Hope holds up the head. | 21 |
| Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. | 22 |
| Hope is a lover’s staff. | 23 |
| Hope is a waking dream. Pliny, Coke. | 24 |
| Hope is an egg of which one may get the yolk, another the white and a third the shell. Danish. | 25 |
| Hope is as cheap as despair. | 26 |
| Hope is but the dream of those that wake. Prior. | 27 |
| Hope is grief’s best music. | 28 |
| Hope is our only comfort in adversity. Latin. | 29 |
| Hope is sweeter than possession. Bulwer. | 30 |
| Hope is the best medicine and fortunately it is in the power of every doctor to dispense it. Punch. | 31 |
| Hope is the bread of the unhappy. | 32 |
| Hope is the dream of a man awake. Plato. | 33 |
| Hope is the pillar of the world. Woloffs (Africa). | 34 |
| Hope is the poor man’s bread. Italian. | 35 |
| Hope maketh the fool rich. German. | 36 |
| Hope of all passions most befriends us here. Young. | 37 |
| Hope on, hope ever. | 38 |
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is but always to be blest. Pope. | 39 |
| Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. Watts. | 40 |
| Hope, thou nurse of young desire. Bickerstaff. | 41 |
| Hope to the end. New Testament. | 42 |
| Hope well and have well. | 43 |
| Hopers go to hell. | 44 |
| Hopes and fears checker human life. | 45 |
| Hopes delayed hang the heart upon the tenter hooks. | 46 |
| Hopes of pardon mend not, but encourage criminals. | 47 |
| How void of reason are our hopes and fears. Juvenal. | 48 |
| If it were not for hope, the heart would break. | 49 |
| In the greatest ill the good man hath hope left. | 50 |
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| It is a poor heart in which hope cannot find something to feed upon. | 51 |
| It is hope alone makes us willing to live. | 52 |
| Nane so well but he hopes to be better. | 53 |
| No condition so low but may have hopes, none so high but may have fears. | 54 |
| Not to have hope is the poorest of all conditions. | 55 |
| The hope of the man that is hanging that the rope may break; i.e., a faint hope. | 56 |
| The man who lives by hope will die by hunger. Italian. | 57 |
| The mighty hopes that make us men. Tennyson. | 58 |
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope. Shakespeare. | 59 |
True hope is swift and flies with swallows’ wings,
Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings. Shakespeare. | 60 |
| Were it not for hope the heart would break. Scotch. | 61 |
| When the night’s darkest dawn’s nearest. | 62 |
| When there is no hope there can be no endeavor. Dr. Johnson. | 63 |
| While I live I hope. | 64 |
| While there is life there’s hope. Italian, Portuguese, Latin. | 65 |
| Who could live without hope? French. | 66 |
| Without hope there is no energy. | 67 |
| You cannot purchase hope with money. | 68 |
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