I love Churchill’s clever insights and incisive comments. Here are a few:

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Saving is fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

On military training at Sandhurst, 1930: Although always prepared for martydom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Nothing in life is so exhillarting as to be shot at without result.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves to those we let slip out.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I always manage somehow to adjust to any new level of luxury without whimper or complaint. It is one of my more winning traits.

I do not resent crticism, even when for the  sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.”

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

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

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.