Quotes
Quotes - Churchill
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.
He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
The more laws, the less justice.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
