War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: humour
I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: prognostication
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations
Winston S. ChurchillTag: school examinations
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: life friend books read library relationship churchill
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: grammar
Най-добрият урок в живота е да разбереш, че дори глупаците са прави понякога
Winston S. ChurchillIt is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: king-arthur arthurian arthur
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: existence purpose meaning
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: wwii united-states pearl-harbor
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: war
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