Friday, November 5, 2010

Quotes- Winston Churchill


Churchill was a man that proved you could daily drink a gallon of scotch a day, smoke 20 cigars by evening, be abrasive and gallish, and still be one of the most beloved leaders, poets, and countryman of all time. He was a man among men and thoroughly entertaining.

You make a living by what you get: you make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
-Winston Churchill

Nancy Astor: Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.
Winston Churchill: If I were your husband I would take it.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston Churchill

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
-Winston Churchill

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
-Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
-Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never never, never- in nothing, great or small, large or petty- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
-Winston Churchill

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