Savrola Quotes

“Would you rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist temptations. All this is paying in advance; that is prospective finance. Observe the other side of the picture; the bad things are paid for afterwards.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind";”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“When the notes of life ring false, men should correct them by referring to the tuning-fork of death. It is when that clear menacing tone is heard that the love of life grows keenest in the human heart.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“It was one of those moments when the prizes and penalties of life seem equally stale and futile.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“Because, wherever I have looked, I see that all things are perpetually referred to an eternal standard of fitness, and that right triumphs over wrong, truth over falsehood, beauty over ugliness. Fitness is the general expression! Judged by this standard art and honour have little value.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“Art is to beauty what honour is to honesty, an unnatural allotropic form.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“combined to break his reserve; before he knew it, he had joined in a discussion, one of those half cynical, half serious discussions which are characteristic of an age which inquires because it doubts, and doubts the more because it has inquired.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“Their lives had been different; but one day perhaps he would open this strange book of war, and by the vivid light of personal danger read the lessons it contained.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“He came early, unwisely as, had he come later, there would have been a better audience to watch his arrival; however, to his untutored mind perhaps this was a matter of little importance.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“The worst result of an habitual use of strong language is that when a special occasion really does arise, there is no way of marking it.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“And history while for the warning of vehement high, and during natures, she notes his many errors, will yet deliberately pronounce that among the eminent men whose bones lie near his, scarcely one has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid name.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“more than is wise or philosophic; but I contain myself, when nothing is to be gained by giving way.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola

“Promotion should always go by merit, not by age, for services and not for service.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Savrola