Winston Churchill

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

Beauty without expression is boring.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do and thinks it still matters.

The only wealth is life.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.