American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Herbert George "H.G." Wells (September 21, 1866-August 13, 1946) was one of the best-known British literary figures. He was a novelist, historian, sociologist, and scientific writer. "New Jersey is being invaded by Martians!" exclaimed actor Orson Welles reading the script of a 1938 radio drama based on the novel War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Herbert George Wells was from an impoverished lower middle class family. He failed as a draper and chemist assistant before going into literature. H.G. Wells wrote many best-selling science fiction novels: The Time Machine, 1895; The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896; The Invisible Man, 1897;...

Sir Arthur Keith (February 5, 1866-January 7, 1955) was a Scottish anatomist, anthropologist, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Sir Arthur Keith wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of Origin of the Species, admitting: <Evolution is unproved and unprovable.> 1866AK001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1866AK001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Sir Arthur Keith, statement.

Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865-January 18, 1936) was a British novelist. He was born in Bombay, educated in England, and in 1882 returned to India as a journalist. In 1889 Kipling arrived back in England, where his popularity as a writer grew tremendously. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He works include: Wee Willie Winkie and Other Children's Stories, 1888; Barrack Room Ballads, 1892-93; The Jungle Book, 1894; Kim, 1901. In Gunga Din, 1892, Rudyard Kipling penned: <Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I...

(Henry) Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859-July 8, 1939) was an English author and psychologist. In his work, The Dance of Life, 1923, he wrote: <The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.> 1859HE001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1859HE001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Henry) Havelock Ellis, 1923, in The Dance of Life, chapter 5. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 690.

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865-January 28, 1939) was an Irish author, theatrical producer and politician. His works include: The Countess Cathleen, 1892; Cathleen ni Houlihan, 1902; The Tower; The Winding Stair; A Vision; and The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1936. He was a senator in the Irish Parliament (Dail Eireann), 1922-28. In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, Into the Twilight: <And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.> 1865WY001 In The Tower, 1928, Two Songs from a Play, II,...