"Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths,……" — Winston Churchill
"Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people.""
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill has 1,057 quotes on this site.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Irene Joliot-Curie
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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