Winston Churchill

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

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Whatever you have spend less.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.