"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on quotations
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Ustinov, Peter on humor
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"The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

Themistocles on government   

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

Guitry, Sacha on revenge
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"The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her."

Unknown, Source on divorce   

"No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

Churchill, Winston on nationalities and nationalism
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"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

Churchill, Winston on ideals and idealism
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about."

Churchill, Winston on modesty
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."

Churchill, Winston on logic
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

Churchill, Winston on art
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"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston on anxiety
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."

Churchill, Winston on home
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

Churchill, Winston on history and historians
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount."

Churchill, Winston on dictators and dictatorship
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Churchill, Winston on defeat
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"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Churchill, Winston on decisions
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"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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