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Quotes of Winston Churchill 1911-1968 British Journalist
Winston Churchill Photo and Biography
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. (courage)
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. (courage)
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. (color)
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. (alcohol and alcoholi)
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. (alcohol and alcoholi)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (achievement)
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. (agreement)
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. (adaptability)
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. (children)
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. (age and aging)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. (capitalism)
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. (attitude)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. (arts and artists)
In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice. (advice)
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. (animals)
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. (worry)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. (words)
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all. (vocabulary)
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. (vengeance)
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. (worry)
Eating words has never given me indigestion. (words)
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. (wordiness)
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. (victory)
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (vision)
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. (wealth)
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