The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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The 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?
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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