Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.!!! (εμένα θα εννοούσε!)
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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.'
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
...Winston Churchill...
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..."The quicksand of life drags us
Down into the circle
One day. we might not catch you"...