m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.	William Tyndale	[ "truth" ]
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.	William Wallace	[ "life" ]
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.	William Warburton	[ "imagination" ]
People don't follow titles, they follow courage.	William Wells Brown	[ "courage" ]
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.	William Westmoreland	[ "food", "medical" ]
War is fear cloaked in courage.	William Westmoreland	[ "courage", "fear", "war" ]
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.	William Westmoreland	[ "food" ]
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.	William Westmoreland	[ "war" ]
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.	William Westmoreland	[ "alone" ]
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.	William Westmoreland	[ "war" ]
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.	William Westmoreland	[ "war" ]
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.	William Whewell	[ "experience" ]
Every failure is a step to success.	William Whewell	[ "failure", "success" ]
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.	William Wordsworth	[ "life", "power" ]
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.	William Wordsworth	[ "wisdom" ]
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.	William Wordsworth	[ "sports" ]
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.	William Wordsworth	[ "poetry" ]
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.	William Wordsworth	[ "best" ]
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.	William Wordsworth	[ "nature" ]
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.	William Wordsworth	[ "music" ]
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.	William Wordsworth	[ "nature" ]
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.	William Wordsworth	[ "nature" ]
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.	William Wordsworth	[ "nature", "teacher" ]
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.	William Wordsworth	[ "age" ]
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.	William Wordsworth	[ "hope" ]
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.	William Wordsworth	[ "business" ]
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.	William Wordsworth	[ "music", "nature", "sad" ]
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.	William Wordsworth	[ "power" ]
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.	William Wordsworth	[ "art" ]
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.	William Wordsworth	[ "business" ]
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.	William Wordsworth	[ "freedom" ]
The child is father of the man.	William Wordsworth	[ "dad" ]
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.	William Wordsworth	[ "strength", "sympathy" ]
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.	William Wordsworth	[ "age" ]
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.	William Wordsworth	[ "future", "life" ]
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.	William Wordsworth	[ "beauty" ]
Faith is a passionate intuition.	William Wordsworth	[ "faith" ]
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.	William Wordsworth	[ "best", "good" ]
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.	William Wycherley	[ "friendship" ]
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.	William Wycherley	[ "death", "jealousy" ]
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.	William Wycherley	[ "beauty" ]
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.	William Wyler	[ "morning" ]
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.	Willie Mays	[ "sports" ]
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.	Willie Mays	[ "car" ]
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.	Willie Mays	[ "anger", "sports" ]
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.	Willie Mays	[ "work" ]
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.	Willie Mays	[ "business" ]
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.	Willie Mays	[ "sports" ]
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.	Willie Mays	[ "knowledge" ]
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.	Willie Morris	[ "home" ]
I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.	Willie Nelson	[ "knowledge" ]
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.	Willie Nelson	[ "music" ]
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.	Willie Nelson	[ "peace" ]
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.	Willie Nelson	[ "sad" ]
America, to me, is freedom.	Willie Nelson	[ "freedom" ]
A lot of country music is sad.	Willie Nelson	[ "music", "sad" ]
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.	Willie Nelson	[ "age", "money" ]
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.	Willie Nelson	[ "positive" ]
Freedom is control in your own life.	Willie Nelson	[ "freedom" ]
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.	Willie Nelson	[ "truth" ]
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.	Willie Nelson	[ "art" ]
I'm a romantic slob!	Willie Nelson	[ "romantic" ]
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.	Willie Nelson	[ "sad" ]
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?	Willie Nelson	[ "god", "government" ]
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.	Willie Nelson	[ "music" ]
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&ampB.	Willie Nelson	[ "music" ]
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.	Willie Nelson	[ "money" ]
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?	Willie Nelson	[ "music" ]
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.	Willie Nelson	[ "money" ]
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.	Willie Nelson	[ "anger", "experience" ]
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.	Willy Brandt	[ "courage" ]
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.	Wilson Greatbatch	[ "travel" ]
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.	Wilson Greatbatch	[ "leadership" ]
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.	Wilson Greatbatch	[ "car" ]
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.	Wilson Mizner	[ "anger" ]
Failure has gone to his head.	Wilson Mizner	[ "failure" ]
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.	Wilson Mizner	[ "wisdom" ]
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.	Wilson Mizner	[ "death" ]
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.	Wilson Mizner	[ "education", "faith", "respect" ]
God help those who do not help themselves.	Wilson Mizner	[ "god" ]
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.	Wilson Mizner	[ "best" ]
Art is science made clear.	Wilson Mizner	[ "art", "science" ]
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.	Wilson Mizner	[ "wisdom" ]
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.	Wilson Mizner	[ "power", "women" ]
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.	Wilson Mizner	[ "art" ]
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.	Wilt Chamberlain	[ "dad" ]
Nobody roots for Goliath.	Wilt Chamberlain	[ "sports" ]
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.	Wilt Chamberlain	[ "cool" ]
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.	Winfield Scott Hancock	[ "government", "peace", "politics" ]
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.	Winifred Holtby	[ "happiness" ]
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics", "war" ]
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.	Winston Churchill	[ "courage" ]
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.	Winston Churchill	[ "courage" ]
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.	Winston Churchill	[ "best" ]
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.	Winston Churchill	[ "failure" ]
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.	Winston Churchill	[ "best" ]
If you're going through hell, keep going.	Winston Churchill	[ "motivational" ]
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	[ "time" ]
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.	Winston Churchill	[ "good", "life" ]
I am easily satisfied with the very best.	Winston Churchill	[ "best" ]

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

William Tyndale

[ "truth" ]

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

[ "life" ]

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

William Warburton

[ "imagination" ]

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

William Wells Brown

[ "courage" ]

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

William Westmoreland

[ "food", "medical" ]

War is fear cloaked in courage.

William Westmoreland

[ "courage", "fear", "war" ]

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

William Westmoreland

[ "food" ]

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

[ "war" ]

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

[ "alone" ]

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

[ "war" ]

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

William Westmoreland

[ "war" ]

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

William Whewell

[ "experience" ]

Every failure is a step to success.

William Whewell

[ "failure", "success" ]

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

[ "life", "power" ]

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

[ "wisdom" ]

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

[ "sports" ]

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

[ "poetry" ]

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

[ "best" ]

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

[ "nature" ]

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

William Wordsworth

[ "music" ]

The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

William Wordsworth

[ "nature" ]

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

William Wordsworth

[ "nature" ]

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

[ "nature", "teacher" ]

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

[ "age" ]

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

[ "hope" ]

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

[ "business" ]

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

[ "music", "nature", "sad" ]

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

William Wordsworth

[ "power" ]

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth

[ "art" ]

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

[ "business" ]

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

[ "freedom" ]

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth

[ "dad" ]

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

[ "strength", "sympathy" ]

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

[ "age" ]

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

[ "future", "life" ]

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth

[ "beauty" ]

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

[ "faith" ]

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

[ "best", "good" ]

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

William Wycherley

[ "friendship" ]

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

[ "death", "jealousy" ]

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

William Wycherley

[ "beauty" ]

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

William Wyler

[ "morning" ]

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Willie Mays

[ "sports" ]

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

Willie Mays

[ "car" ]

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Willie Mays

[ "anger", "sports" ]

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Willie Mays

[ "work" ]

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Willie Mays

[ "business" ]

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

Willie Mays

[ "sports" ]

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Willie Mays

[ "knowledge" ]

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Willie Morris

[ "home" ]

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Willie Nelson

[ "knowledge" ]

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Willie Nelson

[ "music" ]

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

Willie Nelson

[ "peace" ]

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

[ "sad" ]

America, to me, is freedom.

Willie Nelson

[ "freedom" ]

A lot of country music is sad.

Willie Nelson

[ "music", "sad" ]

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Willie Nelson

[ "age", "money" ]

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

[ "positive" ]

Freedom is control in your own life.

Willie Nelson

[ "freedom" ]

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Willie Nelson

[ "truth" ]

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

[ "art" ]

I'm a romantic slob!

Willie Nelson

[ "romantic" ]

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Willie Nelson

[ "sad" ]

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Willie Nelson

[ "god", "government" ]

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

[ "music" ]

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&ampB.

Willie Nelson

[ "music" ]

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Willie Nelson

[ "money" ]

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Willie Nelson

[ "music" ]

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Willie Nelson

[ "money" ]

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Willie Nelson

[ "anger", "experience" ]

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Willy Brandt

[ "courage" ]

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Wilson Greatbatch

[ "travel" ]

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Wilson Greatbatch

[ "leadership" ]

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

Wilson Greatbatch

[ "car" ]

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Wilson Mizner

[ "anger" ]

Failure has gone to his head.

Wilson Mizner

[ "failure" ]

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

[ "wisdom" ]

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizner

[ "death" ]

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Wilson Mizner

[ "education", "faith", "respect" ]

God help those who do not help themselves.

Wilson Mizner

[ "god" ]

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Wilson Mizner

[ "best" ]

Art is science made clear.

Wilson Mizner

[ "art", "science" ]

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

[ "wisdom" ]

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Wilson Mizner

[ "power", "women" ]

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Wilson Mizner

[ "art" ]

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Wilt Chamberlain

[ "dad" ]

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

[ "sports" ]

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

Wilt Chamberlain

[ "cool" ]

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Winfield Scott Hancock

[ "government", "peace", "politics" ]

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

[ "happiness" ]

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics", "war" ]

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

[ "courage" ]

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

[ "courage" ]

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Winston Churchill

[ "best" ]

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

[ "failure" ]

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill

[ "best" ]

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

[ "motivational" ]

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

[ "time" ]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

[ "good", "life" ]

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

[ "best" ]