“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.”
“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”
“The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.”
“In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.”
“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.”
“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
“In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
“I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.”
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”
“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
“The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.”
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
“Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.”
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
“There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.”
“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
“Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.”
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”