Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
-
-
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLS -
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLS -
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS -
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.
H. G. WELLS -
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLS -
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLS -
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 -
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLS -
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLS -
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLS -
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS -
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLS -
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLS -
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS -
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS