Winston Churchill

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. While he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.