"Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
Winston Churchill was a British Prime Minister known for his leadership during WWII and his powerful oratory that inspired resilience and determination.
- Born
- November 30, 1874
- Died
- January 24, 1965
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- #42
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"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."
"Keep calm and carry on."
"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy."
"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
"Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!"
"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous."
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
"I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college."
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
"The man who can master his time can master nearly anything."
"Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure."
"It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything."
"It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom."
"Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'"
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
"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."
"It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."