Friday, June 28, 2024

Winston Churchill - the Redux

 I have appreciated Winston's words for a long time. Time for another look -- if we have to have politicians, may they be strong, practical and plain-speaking!


"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."





More than 500 quotes here from the Great One. He was quite prolific -- and very aware of the power words could produce. 



Here are other Winston quotes that resonate:

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

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


and one of my very favorites:

"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." 


I look at that one, every time I start working on a new book. 

And to finish -- one of the stories he told. He was sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom:

'During one of his stays at the residence in the 1940s, Churchill had just finished a bath and was walking into the main bedroom, completely nude, when he saw the president standing by the fireplace. “Good evening Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage,” Churchill is said to have quipped. [Lincoln smiled -- and disappeared.] 

'Though he handled it well, the Prime Minister requested different rooms on subsequent visits.'






2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's one

If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee.

If I were your husband, madam, I'd drink it!

Cindy Brick said...

That's a good one, too! Thanks for mentioning it.

"Doesn't apply to me... right?"

  Stupid, stupid, stupid.