The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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