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

Quote by H G Wells

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

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.

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...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

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...

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

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

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...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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...

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...

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...