Winston Churchill

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill - responding to a journalist
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
Winston Churchill - Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Winston Churchill - Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.
Winston Churchill - The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.
Winston Churchill - Speech about World War II
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

- Winston Churchill