Quote #174
There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
More from Winston Churchill
- The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.
- There's less to him than meets the eye.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. (attributed to a House of Commons speech of 1951)
- There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- The maxim 'nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter: PARALYSIS.
- The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself…