One of the reasons why the Ten Commandments are so short and to the point is the fact they were given direct and did not come out of committees.


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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that i...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Go away, I'm all right!
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO
Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO
The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO
People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO
In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO