Winston Churchill

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

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.