Quotes By H. G. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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.

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

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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

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

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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.

Our true nationality is mankind.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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