Winston Churchill

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

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!

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Letting go is not giving up.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.