“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
“He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.”
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”
“Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.”
“We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.”
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.”
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.”
“No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.”
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.”
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
“No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.”
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”