An Old Post

It's an old essay, but the despair is genuine and the point right.

I was reading Winston Churhill quotes this evening, trying to find a title or inspiration for a title. One that caught me, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." It seems to fit. A few other good ones:

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

"Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about."

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

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."