Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl