Winston Churchill:
On Stanley Baldwin: “He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
On John Foster Dulles: “He is the only bull I know who carries his own china closet with him.”
On Punctuality: “I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and airplanes a fair chance of getting away.”
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
“You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to toss a stone at every dog that barks.”
“It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly.”
Others:
There comes a point when the primary duty of an honest man is to restate the obvious. (George Orwell)
Most people use research the same way a drunk uses a lamppost - for support rather than illumination. (David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Ad Man)
Success has a hundred parents, but failure is an orphan. (Buddha)
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye - the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The meaning of good and bad, better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. (Pancho Villa's last words)
The difference between genius and stupidity is that
genius has its limits. -- Albert Einstein
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