Winston Churchill

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent – for every effect a perfect cause – and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.