Winston Churchill

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

Nature hates calculators.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Our best thoughts come from others.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.