An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.