I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSAdvertising is legalized lying.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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