Wess Roberts
● Anyone who doesn’t make mistakes isn’t trying hard enough.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
● Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.
● “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
● “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
● I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat,Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour4
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
● The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
● I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
● Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
● The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
● By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
● It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
● Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
● Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
● The price of greatness is responsibility.
● I like a man who grins when he fights.
●We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
● Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
● It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
● It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
● When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
● We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
● An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
● The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
● I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
● Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
● Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
● I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
● Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
● India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
● 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!
● It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
● There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
● Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
● War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
● No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
● If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
● Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
● A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
● Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
● Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
● Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

William Shakespeare
● Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
● Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
● This above all: to thine own self be true.
● No legacy is so rich as honesty.
● Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Congreve
● Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Jennings Bryant
● The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
● 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.

William James
● Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
● Be not afraid of life.
● Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
● The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Wilson Mizner
● When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research

Will Rogers
● We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
● Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
● Even if your on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there

William Authur Ward
● If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it.