“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren reads—and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
Charlie Munger (verified)
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“By noon it was clear that the Socialists would have a majority. At luncheon my wife said to me, It may well be a blessing in disguise. I replied, At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“This is a good place,” he said.
“There’s a lot of liquor,” I agreed.
”You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Someone once said that history is written by the victors. He probably was not the greatest of all victors, if only because his name has been utterly forgotten.”
— Winston Churchill (unverified)