Never, never, never quit.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— (replying to Lady Astor’s comment ‘Sir, you’re drunk!’) - I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile–hoping it will eat him last.
- I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- If you are going through hell, keep going.
- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.