Winston Churchill

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life … would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Reality is a sliding door.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.