Winston Churchill

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to prepare for the long haul, the rise and fall, and let neither define your sense of self.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.