Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Remember where you came from.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.