The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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?
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSThere 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