The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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