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.'