Winston Churchill

Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

A man is a god in ruins.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

We live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.