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Churchill, Sir Winston - National Library of Scotland's educational and exhibition resource for the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill Archives Centre - Churchill College - Built to house Sir Winston Churchill's papers in all some 2,200 boxes of letters and documents.

Churchill, Winston - Biography - Provides a brief historical biography of Churchill's life and career.

Winston Churchill - Provides Winston Churchill and the Sinews of Peace Address.

Churchill, the Evidence - An exploration of the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill.

The Life and Times of Winston Churchill - Comprehensive site, provided by the US-based Churchill Center and Societies.

The Churchill Society London - Provides information and resources for Sir Winston Churchill.

Humorous Quotes of Winston Churchill - Humorous Quotes attributed to Winston Churchill.

Moreorless hero files - Winston Churchill - A short biography and background notes.

Churchill Online.org.uk - A Guide to Online Churchill Resources - A page dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill, a guide to the best online Churchill resources plus original work.

Churchill, Sir Winston - Offers a brief biography of England's greatest 20th-century prime minister.

FBI Freedom of Information Act: Winston Churchill - 220 pages of FBI files on the former PM, in PDF format.

Bibliographies and Critiques - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of Winston Churchill.

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer [1874-1965] KG - English statesman - Has a short biography and an extensive collection of links to other web pages, most with descriptive information.

The Rise to Power of Winston Churchill - Offers an article describing Churchill's rise to power. Includes quotes and World War Two timeline.

Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Churchill, Sir Winston The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Churchill, Sir Winston The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Churchill, Sir Winston The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Churchill, Sir Winston Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Churchill, Sir Winston That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Churchill, Sir Winston Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Churchill, Sir Winston "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Churchill, Sir Winston The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Churchill, Sir Winston As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Churchill, Sir Winston "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Churchill, Sir Winston All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Churchill, Sir Winston Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Churchill, Sir Winston "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Churchill, Sir Winston Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Churchill, Sir Winston Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Churchill, Sir Winston Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Churchill, Sir Winston Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Churchill, Sir Winston What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright May you never leave your marriage alive. My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Churchill, Sir Winston I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Churchill, Sir Winston By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Churchill, Sir Winston If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Churchill, Sir Winston
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