Winston Churchill

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

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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 universe is wider than our views of it.

God’s first creature, which was light.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland. There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.