"One may imagine that a man who blew……" — Winston Churchill
"One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement."
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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 Amusement Quotes
This quote is filed under Amusement Quotes,
one of 346 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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