Stephen Burckhardt Favourite Quotes Collection

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• No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

  Winston Churchill#Absurdity 51

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill#Motivation 51

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• We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

  Winston Churchill#Saint 53

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• To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill#change 52

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• it is the people who control the Government not the Government the
  people.

  Winston Churchill#Democracy 53

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• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill#Giving 53

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• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill#Uncategorized 54

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• In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

  Winston Churchill#Times 54

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• Democracy is the worst form of government except all others.

  Winston Churchill#Democracy 54

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• Never, never, never give up.

  Winston Churchill 54

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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 Churchill#Courage 56

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill#Greatness 60

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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 Churchill#Beginning 60

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• Great and good are seldom the same man.

  Winston Churchill#Uncategorized 64

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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 Churchill#Battles 65

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• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill#Government 66

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• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

  Winston Churchill#Opportunities 66

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• It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

  Winston Churchill#Wrong 68

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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 Churchill#God 72

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• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill#Perseverance 75

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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 Churchill#Beliefs 76

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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 Churchill#politics 80

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

  Winston Churchill#Nature 105

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• Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

  Winston Churchill#Ending 125

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• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Mark Twain#Between 67

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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 Twain#Humor 67

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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 Twain#Drag 67

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• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

  Mark Twain#Aliteracy 67

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• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

  Mark Twain#Funny 67

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• Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

  Mark Twain#Conduct 68

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• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  Mark Twain#Money 68

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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 Twain#History 68

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• The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

  Mark Twain#Humor 69

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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 Twain#age 69

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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 Twain#Mind 70

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• The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain#Innovation 72

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• I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

  Mark Twain#Truth 75

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• Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

  Mark Twain#Humorous 81

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• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain#Uncategorized 79

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• To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

  Mark Twain#Teaching 80

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• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

  Mark Twain#Funny 100

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