Winston Churchill

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, It would be to use the phrase ‘f**k off’ much more frequently.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.