Winston Churchill
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.Collection: Ocean
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.Collection: Lying
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.Collection: Government
If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.Collection: Jobs
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.Collection: Funny
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.Collection: Past
Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.Collection: Men
It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.Collection: Giving Up
will still be ugly."Collection: It Will Pass By The Morning. You
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.Collection: Learning
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.Collection: Dream
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.Collection: Fake
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.Collection: Love
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.Collection: Men
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.Collection: Motivational
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.Collection: Europe
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.Collection: Adversity
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.Collection: Children
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.Collection: Firsts
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.Collection: Doctors
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.Collection: Life And Love
Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.Collection: Arguing
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.Collection: Life
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.Collection: Education
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.Collection: Team
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.Collection: Hero
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.Collection: Wise
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.Collection: Peace
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.Collection: Vices
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.Collection: Inspirational
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the priceCollection: Sleep
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.Collection: Strong
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their partyCollection: Leadership
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.Collection: Husband
The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.Collection: Lying
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.Collection: Change
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.Collection: Motivational
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.Collection: Life
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.Collection: Moving
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.Collection: Acceptance
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.Collection: Children
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.Collection: Simple
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.Collection: War
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.Collection: Victory
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.Collection: Dog
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.Collection: Funny
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.Collection: Eye