Winston Churchill

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

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.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.