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255014e Color will play no part in the art of future. Günter Brus
fd4588d You become an artist to upset your family. Günter Brus
7bc7350 Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred. Günter Grass
18e9a2a Politics is the art of human happiness. H. A. L. Fisher
2203b52 How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. H. G. Wells
6f81146 I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. H. G. Wells
51f75db Cynicism is humour in ill health. H. G. Wells
0f95924 The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. H. G. Wells
9ad9318 He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly. H. G. Wells
897e855 Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small. H. G. Wells
ff16bea An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. H. G. Wells
5176f46 I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply. H. G. Wells
e7b76d9 If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells
617f8d7 Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. H. G. Wells
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