While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate…

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Cheerfulness Quotes, Peace Quotes

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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...

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

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...

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

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

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...

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...

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the...

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that...

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that...