Winston Churchill Quotes, Afterlife Quotes, Chinese Quotes

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

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The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

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We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

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The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

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Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

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Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

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One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

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You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

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We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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