Quotes by H. G. Wells

"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."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."

"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

"Our true nationality is mankind."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

"There 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."

"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?"

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

"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."

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."

"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise."

"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."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."