Winston Churchill

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

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.