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Quotes of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British
statesman, writer (Nobel
laureate in literature,
1953)
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home."
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. "
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill 1854-1921; American-born mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."
"Golf is a game whose sole aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for that purpose."
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
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