My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. – Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. – Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. – Winston Churchill
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Winston Churchill
A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this—animated, but collateral. – Rose Macaulay, Daisy & Daphne, 1928