Winston Churchill

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

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

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

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Virtue is too often merely local.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.