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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven.
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.