“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”

- Winston Churchill

This is one of Churchill’s many inspirational quotes:

- “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”.

- Winston Churchill

- Winston Churchill

As you can see from Mark Twain’s following quotes, he had a similar capacity to Churchill when it came to offering short barbed insults to people they took a dislike to.

• “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
• “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 30/11/1835 – 21/4/1910)

From George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill :

” I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one”

Winston Churchill’s reply to Mr Shaw:

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second…. if there is one.”

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.”

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While its been no laughing matter having to put up with those unbearable Collingwood fans and the bureaucrats who plan to ruin the Murray Darling Basin, I was recently reminded from a retired friend of mine who said, “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing!”

There is a message here for all of us.

“The trouble with a good many of us is that we come to a conclusion before we arrive at the end.”

“I cannot doubt we have the strength to carry a good cause forward, and to break down the barriers which stand between the wage-earning masses of every land and that free and more abundant daily life which science is ready to afford”.