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 Primary source“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 Primary source“He’s not a bad guy really, except he’s so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“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 Primary source“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“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 Primary source“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Senators, we hear, must be politicians—and politicians must be concerned only with winning votes, not with statesmanship or courage. Mothers may still want their favorite sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, they do not want them to become politicians in the process.”
— John F. Kennedy Primary source“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Disputed“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.”
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