Wells Quotes

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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.… — Henry David Thoreau
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches… — Rodney Dangerfield
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,… — Shel Silverstein
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… — Andre Gide
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What's well begun is half done. — Horace
You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well.… — Alex Grey
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of… — Ugo Betti
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of… — Thorstein Veblen
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare
In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means. — Cesar Chavez
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way… — Cesar Chavez
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot. — John Steinbeck
I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll… — Groucho Marx
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and… — Abraham Lincoln
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson

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