Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

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

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Virtue is too often merely local.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.