Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.