Winston Churchill

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

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

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

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.