The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSA time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLS