The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSThe New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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