Fire Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. - H. G. Wells
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. - H. G. Wells
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. - H. G. Wells
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. - H. G. Wells
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. - H. G. Wells
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. - H. G. Wells
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. - H. G. Wells
I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse? - David Carradine
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? - Erma Bombeck
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P. Jones
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. - Henry Mayhew