I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Quote by H G Wells

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

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

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

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

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

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.