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

Quote by H G Wells

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

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...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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...

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

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

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

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

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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...

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...

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...

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

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