black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

H. G. Wells

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.
H. G. WELLS

Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS

Essence History Human Idea
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLS

Best Card Enough Facem Upward Play Politics Strangely Table Way
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.
H. G. WELLS

Blind Command Conflict Contending Host Obtain Once One See War
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLS

Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS

Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. WELLS

Abolish Danger Death Made Nothing Purpose Revolution Simply Uffer Worldwide
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLS

Gamble Look Men Not Own Pay Reasonable That
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLS

Church Comfortable Hell More Much Ought Sailor
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.
H. G. WELLS

Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLS

Mankind Nationality True Our
The 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?
H. G. WELLS

Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLS

Ater Draft Else Equal Passion Someone World
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. WELLS

Change Get There Through Trouble What World
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS

Action Ad But Come Make Sober Sorry Wise
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLS

Accumulation All Beginning Biological Experience Individual Since Species Successful

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More H. G. Wells Quotes