Showing posts with label H.G. Wells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H.G. Wells. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2009

Quote (#501)

"The best defense against the atom bomb
is not to be there when it goes off."
- Anonymous

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

"Moral indignation is
jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
- Henrik Ibsen

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotes

"Ability will never catch up
with the demand for it."
- Malcolm Forbes

"Human history becomes more and more a
race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells

"Writing books is the closest
men ever come to childbearing."
- Norman Mailer

"I spent a year in that
town, one Sunday."
- George Burns

Jared: "Takes more than flesh
and blood to be human."
- Nemesis (1993)


"A door is what a dog is perpetually
on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Quotaria

He is one of those people who would
be enormously improved by death.
- Saki

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging
compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the
enterprising participation of its employees.
~ Ricardo Semler

"I have enough money to last me the rest
of my life, unless I buy something."
- Jackie Mason

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and
when they have changed him they do not like him."
- Marlene Dietrich

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative
fiction being written today."
- Herman Wouk

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is
nature's inexorable imperative."
- H. G. Wells