Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

It is natural to die as to be born.