If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill Quotes
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Few people practise what they preach, and no one less so than Mr. Bernard Shaw. Few are more capable of having the best of everything both ways… His dissolvent theories of life and society have been sturdily banished from his personal conduct and his home. No one has ever led a more respectable life or […]
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the prairies because we were made of sugar-candy.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
Churchill, whose fondness for drink was well known, was scheduled to make a speech before a small gathering. The chair introduced him by saying: “If all the spirits consumed by Sir Winston were poured into this room, it would reach up to here on the wall.” He drew a line with his finger at about […]
