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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MachFly on December 06, 2009, 07:59:57 PM
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What do you guys think?
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” By Winston Churchill
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” By Winston Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” By Winston Churchill
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” By Winston Churchill
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” By Winston Churchill
“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.” By Winston Churchill
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” By Winston Churchill
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” By Winston Churchill
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” By Winston Churchill
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” By Winston Churchill
“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” By Winston Churchill
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” By Winston Churchill
“Never, never, never give up.” By Winston Churchill
“’No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.” By Winston Churchill
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” By Winston Churchill
“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” By Winston Churchill
“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.” By Winston Churchill
“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” By Winston Churchill
“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.” By Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” By Winston Churchill
“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.” By Winston Churchill
“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” By Winston Churchill
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” By Winston Churchill
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” By Winston Churchill
“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” By Winston Churchill
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” By Winston Churchill
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” By Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” By Winston Churchill
“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” By Winston Churchill
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” By Winston Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” By Winston Churchill
Don't forget the last one :)
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My favorite Churchillisms are these...
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. "
While campaigning in 1900, young Churchill was approached by a man who exclaimed to him: 'Vote for you? Why, I'd rather vote for the Devil!'. 'I understand' said Churchill. 'But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?'
Churchill proposing a toast to the Soviet leader at the Yalta conference in 1945: 'To Premier Stalin, whose foreign policy manifests a desire for peace.' Then in a whispered aside out of the interpreter's hearing: 'A piece of Poland, a piece of Hungary, a piece of Romania...'
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Don't know if it is true, but the funniest quote from Calvin Coolidge-
There was a dinner attended by the president ( nicknamed "silent cal" for his lack of small talk ) and a young woman had the good fortune to sit next to him at dinner.
Upon discovering the seating assignments, a man bet her that Coolidge wouldn't say three words to her all night.
As dinner was winding down, the president had yet to utter a single word to the young lady. She decided to provoke him by telling him about the bet.
He listened to her story, smiled and said: "you lose". :D
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Don't know if it is true, but the funniest quote from Calvin Coolidge-
There was a dinner attended by the president ( nicknamed "silent cal" for his lack of small talk ) and a young woman had the good fortune to sit next to him at dinner.
Upon discovering the seating assignments, a man bet her that Coolidge wouldn't say three words to her all night.
As dinner was winding down, the president had yet to utter a single word to the young lady. She decided to provoke him by telling him about the bet.
He listened to her story, smiled and said: "you lose". :D
:rofl
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I couldn't help but think of this while reading these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDTOg4DuCA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDTOg4DuCA)
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Missed my favorite :)
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk.
Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else." By Winston Churchill
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. WC
Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
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“Never, never, never give up.” By Winston Churchill
Abbreviated by the great man to KBO - Keep Buggering On.
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