My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
