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Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Winston Churchill
Golf, Pills, Cows
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

Winston Churchill
Adversity, Government, World
"The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill
Education, Fighting, Political
Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

Winston Churchill
Disappointment, Achievement, Matter

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

Winston Churchill
Party, Leader, Rising
Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Winston Churchill
Acceptance, Government, Risk
Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Winston Churchill
Tired, Angel, Done

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Winston Churchill
Children, Pleasure, Fortune

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Winston Churchill
Dog, Men, Muslim Faith
"The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill
War, Writing, Political

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill
War, Political, Cynical
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

Winston Churchill
Love, Heart, Brilliant

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

Winston Churchill
War, Night, Joy
Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

Winston Churchill
Dark, Science, Blessing
Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Winston Churchill
Eye, Games, Two

If you are going through hell just keep going

Winston Churchill
Hell, Ifs, Keep Going

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill
Sorry, Brilliant, Poor
Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Winston Churchill
Peace, War, Yield
"My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Winston Churchill
Success, Men, Discipline
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill
Giving Up, Government, Blood
Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Years
Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

Winston Churchill
Knowledge, Science, Years

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

Winston Churchill
Real, Taken, Race
"The Churchill you didn't know". To Palestine Royal Commission, 1937, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill
Memories, Passion, Fate
Winston Churchill, David Cannadine (1989). “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Military, War
Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. viii

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