Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.