The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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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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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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