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

Quote by H G Wells

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

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

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.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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 past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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...

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

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

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...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

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...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

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...

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

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

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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...

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the...

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the...