I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five pape...
G. H. HARDY I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. HARDY There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for...
G. H. HARDY Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all i...
G. H. HARDY Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical id...
G. H. HARDY A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanen...
G. H. HARDY Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. HARDY Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. HARDY It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are alread...
G. H. HARDY A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent ...
G. H. HARDY No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, ...
G. H. HARDY It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already en...
G. H. HARDY Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLS Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLS What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLS The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...
H. G. WELLS History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLS If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the d...
H. G. WELLS Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...
H. G. WELLS I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those ...
H. G. BISSINGER One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. BISSINGER There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
H. G. BISSINGER Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
H. G. BISSINGER I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
H. G. BISSINGER Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desi...
H. G. BISSINGER My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with...
H. G. BISSINGER Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
H. G. BISSINGER I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. BISSINGER If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you f...
H. G. BISSINGER But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new...
H. G. BISSINGER Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
H. G. BISSINGER I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Od...
H. G. BISSINGER I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.
H. G. BISSINGER I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They w...
H. G. BISSINGER I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose ...
H. G. BISSINGER Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. BISSINGER Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
H G WELLS 'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
H. G. WELLS Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H. G. WELLS Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. WELLS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...
H. G. WELLS Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
H. G. BOHN Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
H. G. BOHN Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
H. G. BOHN One of the reasons why the Ten Commandments are so short and to the point is the fact they were give...
H. G. HUTCHESON The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLS While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has ...
H. G. WELLS Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLS Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLS Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLS In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument th...
H. G. BISSINGER Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLS Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. WELLS We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth centur...
H. G. WELLS Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they h...
H. G. WELLS Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as ...
H. G. BISSINGER The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in Ame...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLS The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. WELLS A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension ...
H. G. WELLS What is in ruins? The invisible church, composed of all Spirit-baptized persons, is indefectible, it...
G. H. LANG Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw...
G. H. KNIGHT [In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We ...
G. H. KNIGHT Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with m...
G. H. KNIGHT No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WELLS I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school pa...
H. G. BISSINGER Go away... I'm alright.
H. G. WELLS Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLS The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. WELLS We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a m...
H. G. WELLS No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS You cannot have the success without the failures.
H. G. HASLER I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLS It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLS Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLS One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
H. G. BISSINGER Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne...
H. G. BISSINGER Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS The shape of things to come.
H. G. WELLS There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and eng...
H. G. WELLS Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
G. H. LEWES There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your co...
H. G. WELLS Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones the...
H. G. WELLS If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS We were making the future, he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were makin...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocati...
H. G. WELLS And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he want...
H. G. WELLS You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. WELLS In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the ta...
H. G. WELLS An inch in a man's nose is much.
H. G. BOHN In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
H. G. WELLS Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. WELLS The only cure for grief is action.
G. H. LEWES After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning an...
H. G. WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS Few there are that will endure a true friend.
H. G. BOHN He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.
H. G. BOHN Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. BOHN He preacheth patience that never knew pain
H. G. BOHN Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
H. G. BOHN Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
H. G. BOHN Every dog is a lion at home.
H. G. BOHN There are only about 20 murders a year in London and not all are serious-some are just husbands kill...
G. H. HATHERILL Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
H. G. WELLS That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
OLIVER HARDY We never see ourselves as others see us.
OLIVER HARDY The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling...
TOM HARDY There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
THOMAS HARDY A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in ...
THOMAS HARDY If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Sh...
TOM HARDY For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t...
JEFF HARDY Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
THOMAS HARDY Tess's feminine hope - shall we confess it - had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in he...
THOMAS HARDY I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
THOMAS HARDY A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never...
THOMAS HARDY At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me....
THOMAS HARDY Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...
THOMAS HARDY People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfe...
THOMAS HARDY Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only v...
THOMAS HARDY There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The s...
THOMAS HARDY If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDY Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to expre...
THOMAS HARDY Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
THOMAS HARDY Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired...
THOMAS HARDY The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
THOMAS HARDY If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ho...
THOMAS HARDY Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDY Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
THOMAS HARDY Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveli...
THOMAS HARDY Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
THOMAS HARDY Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction...
THOMAS HARDY A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then ...
HARDY AMIES I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times an...
THOMAS HARDY Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the...
THOMAS HARDY Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
THOMAS HARDY Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDY Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
THOMAS HARDY Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Wome...
THOMAS HARDY Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
THOMAS HARDY A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance...
THOMAS HARDY That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
THOMAS HARDY If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
THOMAS HARDY A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDY ...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
THOMAS HARDY Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDY If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be conce...
THOMAS HARDY There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than ca...
THOMAS HARDY I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
TOM HARDY A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after...
THOMAS HARDY Being myself is what got me to where I am.
JEFF HARDY I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthf...
TOM HARDY Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potent...
BEN HARDY If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll ...
JEFF HARDY Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little p...
THOMAS HARDY I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Che...
TOM HARDY The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?
DIANNA HARDY The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
TOM HARDY I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?
JANICE HARDY All indicators were that the city just wouldn't be able to pull this off, even as recently as 24 hou...
ARTHUR HARDY We owe it to our ancestors and our children to keep this celebration going. We just can't stop. This...
ARTHUR HARDY I think now more than ever we need a reason to celebrate. It's really at our core. I can't imagine t...
ARTHUR HARDY I think now more than ever we need a reason to celebrate. It's really at our core,
ARTHUR HARDY We cannot afford not to have Mardi Gras. That message would be -- New Orleans is closed for business...
ARTHUR HARDY We desperately need to let the world know we're alive and that we're open for business. We hope peop...
ARTHUR HARDY For those of us who live here, it's group therapy.
ARTHUR HARDY It's like having several Super Bowls without having to bid on them. It helps to define who we are. W...
ARTHUR HARDY I don't want to see the event become a corporate billboard but if that's the only way it can go on a...
ARTHUR HARDY We need it for our psyche. It's like group therapy. We've likened this to a jazz funeral, we mourn o...
ARTHUR HARDY Storms were created when love was bound; set it free, and it could break barriers, and pave new path...
DIANNA HARDY Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
DIANNA HARDY In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us...
THOMAS HARDY The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidan...
THOMAS HARDY You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
THOMAS HARDY I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 fo...
TOM HARDY If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautifu...
TOM HARDY I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always w...
JEFF HARDY If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ...
THOMAS HARDY Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the l...
THOMAS HARDY You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to mak...
THOMAS HARDY Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. “If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look...
DIANNA HARDY To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDY For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people...
JEREMY HARDY It was terrible. Those cabins. It was unreal.
BRUCE HARDY