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.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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A 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.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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