Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotations
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Success is never final.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'
It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic.
Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.