Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The politician must be able to predict what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year; and then explain why it didn't happen as he predicted.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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After an election recount, only the winner matters. Everyone else is a loser.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The problem of our time is that its men do not want to be useful but important.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The criticisms will not be pleasant, but they are necessary.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The alternation fertilizes the soil of democracy.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Imagination comforts men with what they cannot be. Humor comforts them with what they are.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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The good is slow because it goes uphill. The evil is fast because it goes downhill.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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A man is born without teeth, without hair, and without illusions. And he dies the same way: without teeth, without hair, and without illusions.