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Wells Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and…
- The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
- My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..
- All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
- The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
- To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority…
- After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
- Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong