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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18afa87 | The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 3c6c947 | Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 9fa604d | Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 2c85b3c | Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. | H. G. Wells | ||
| ccb4de6 | Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. | H. G. Wells | ||
| ad4dec8 | One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 422b456 | For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life. | H. G. Wells | ||
| df2738d | The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 9fe9afb | Human history is in essence a history of ideas. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 3cfcd4a | Our true nationality is mankind. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 21de1a4 | Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark. | H. G. Wells | ||
| cb784e8 | Rowena: You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 25a666d | John Cabal: If we don't end war, war will end us. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 2a38e22 | Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 3c03645 | Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 42dc201 | Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| fbb16eb | The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 25f2f3d | Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| f45ddb4 | Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 9b71806 | The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 06639ec | It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 111df04 | Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| e14070b | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| f924157 | Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| c08493d | No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 5a3fa2d | Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 5d9ea80 | My business is not prognosis, but diagnosis. I am not engaged in therapeutics, but in pathology. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 9d0e596 | When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 4f7fafc | Nature abhors a moron. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| b812274 | Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| b798193 | A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| b941eca | Remorse -- Regret that one waited so long to do it. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| cd799c9 | Self-respect -- The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| d4dbbfc | Truth -- Something somehow discreditable to someone. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 1428916 | We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| b860dc0 | Historian -- An unsuccessful novelist. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 4cc8303 | Christian -- One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 9a0017e | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 014fd2d | Judge -- A law student who marks his own examination-papers. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 251846d | Lawyer -- One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 451fa35 | Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 937de66 | Misogynist -- A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| e07f7a6 | A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. | H. L. Mencken | ||
| 420aef6 | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. | H. L. Mencken |