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"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. "
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,775 people liked it

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: fanatism
179 people liked it

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
205 people liked it

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: failure, persistence, success
145 people liked it

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: alcohol, classic-insult, drunk
167 people liked it

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.'"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: classic-insult
108 people liked it

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

tags: human, humor, nature, politics
62 people liked it

"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: determination, perseverence
71 people liked it

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: military
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"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor
57 people liked it

"The price of greatness is responsibility. "
— Winston S. Churchill

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"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance
44 people liked it

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.""
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: free, speech
36 people liked it

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: success
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: poor, rich
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"A joke is a very serious thing."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, 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."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, war
36 people liked it

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: military
17 people liked it

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: change
31 people liked it

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: health, politics, wisdom
20 people liked it

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: law
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"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: united-states
46 people liked it

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
— Winston S. Churchill

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"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 S. Churchill

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"there is no such thing as a good tax"
— Winston S. Churchill

9 people liked it

"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor
17 people liked it

"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
— Winston S. Churchill

6 people liked it

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor
9 people liked it

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: books, inspirational, writing
6 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
800 people liked it

"laws are silent in times of war"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

21 people liked it

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (On Obligations: De Officiis)

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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,205 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,500 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,039 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,054 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,527 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,704 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,324 people liked it

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

tags: writing
910 people liked it

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
937 people liked it

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world
1,043 people liked it

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