H. G. Wells Quotes

I have always let my heart rule my head, but if I could rewind and start afresh I would listen to my mother. I would agree and follow whatever she told me.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I never regretted what I turned down.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Time and again ... governments have rejected proposals today—and longed for them tomorrow.

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

Second thoughts, they say, are best.