Winston Churchill

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.