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. 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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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