Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.