It starts with you and it ends with you
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths -your abilities and your failings.
T. S. Eliot
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Smiley Blanton
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. EliotGenuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
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