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Wells Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
- Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
- Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
- A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not…
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,…
- But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
- Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending…
- We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've…
- Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
- Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being…
- From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you…
- It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook."…
- Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
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