A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won
Eating words has never given me indigestion
Great and good are seldom the same man
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter
I never worry about action, but only inaction
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
If you are going through hell, keep going
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop
Never, never, never give up
No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see
The first quality that is needed is audacity
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself
The price of greatness is responsibility
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life
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