Stephen Burckhardt Favourite Quotes Collection

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Winston ChurchillAbsurdity 75
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If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston ChurchillMotivation 81
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston ChurchillSaint 120
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To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchillchange 137
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it is the people who control the Government not the Government the
people.
Winston ChurchillDemocracy 381
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillGiving 84
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston ChurchillUncategorized 70
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In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston ChurchillTimes 77
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Democracy is the worst form of government except all others.
Winston ChurchillDemocracy 215
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Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill 76
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillCourage 170
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston ChurchillGreatness 77
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston ChurchillBeginning 84
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston ChurchillGood 145
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston ChurchillBattles 118
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston ChurchillGovernment 169
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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston ChurchillOpportunities 228
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It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.
Winston ChurchillWrong 97
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston ChurchillGod 208
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillPerseverance 170
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This is the lesson: Never give in ... never, never, never, never ... in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor or good taste.
Winston ChurchillBeliefs 153
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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston Churchillpolitics 272
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillNature 256
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston ChurchillEnding 335
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark TwainBetween 94
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark TwainHumor 84
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark TwainDrag 80
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark TwainAliteracy 85
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainFunny 116
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainConduct 95
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark TwainMoney 196
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
Mark TwainHistory 235
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainHumor 201
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twainage 112
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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only but also teachings out of books for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark TwainMind 151
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark TwainInnovation 148
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark TwainTruth 140
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Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
Mark TwainHumorous 395
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark TwainKindness 219
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
Mark TwainTeaching 196
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainFunny 259
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