Winston S. Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

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

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

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

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

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

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

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

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."