I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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