Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

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 a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

The more you know the less you understand.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.