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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
842 people liked it

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
499 people liked it

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
493 people liked it

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

tags: coffee, sucide
175 people liked it

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

tags: romance
146 people liked it

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
— Albert Camus

tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
96 people liked it

"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
— Albert Camus

86 people liked it

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
— Albert Camus (The Stranger)

tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion
62 people liked it

"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
— Albert Camus

tags: atheism, god, religion
64 people liked it

"I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
— Albert Camus

49 people liked it

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
— Albert Camus

33 people liked it

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
— Albert Camus

45 people liked it

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests."
— Albert Camus

26 people liked it

"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
828 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
606 people liked it

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: churchill, funny, true, winston
489 people liked it

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

tags: convictions, criticism
483 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
211 people liked it

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, optimism
202 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
178 people liked it

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

tags: failure, persistence, success
148 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
113 people liked it

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
95 people liked it

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
— Winston S. Churchill

77 people liked it

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: diplomat, politics
89 people liked it

"If you cannot read all your books...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 you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
— Winston S. Churchill

71 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
66 people liked it

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: language
59 people liked it

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
— Winston S. Churchill

57 people liked it

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
— Winston S. Churchill (Their Finest Hour)

40 people liked it

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

tags: poor, rich
52 people liked it

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: politics
34 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

35 people liked it

"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

"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
37 people liked it

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result."
— Winston S. Churchill

34 people liked it

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: quotes
28 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

23 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,610 people liked it

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: car, funny, humor, religious
1,192 people liked it

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
672 people liked it

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: loss, love
139 people liked it

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: christianity
108 people liked it

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
83 people liked it

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
— G.K. Chesterton

81 people liked it

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: humor, leibniz, religion, watchmaker
64 people liked it

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: ethics, firearms
67 people liked it

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
— G.K. Chesterton

60 people liked it

"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
— G.K. Chesterton

58 people liked it

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
— G.K. Chesterton

68 people liked it

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