H G Wells Famous Quotes
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
"I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations."
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
"'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'."
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H G Wells Quotations
"Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves."
Theodor Reik
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
H L Mencken
"I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway."
Josh Billings
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be."
Unknown
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
Oswald Mosley
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."
Charles R Swindoll
Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.
M C Escher
"Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye."
Jean Kerr
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus