Quotable Quotes

Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Delay is preferable to error.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Anonymous (source unknown to me)

If you always do what you have done, you will always get what you have gotten.

The strong take from the weak. The smart take from the strong.

Dr Dolittle

If you use what you have got, you won’t need what you have not.

Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

He who isn’t a liberal at 20 hasn’t a heart. He who isn’t a conservative at 50 hasn’t a brain.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Democracy is the worst form of government except compared to any other.