A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Quote by Winston Churchill
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
- The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Best Quotes
- Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.