During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations.
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
It’s Never Over ’till it’s over! Never Give Up! Never.
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
All wisdom is not new wisdom.
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.
Success is never final.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.