A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a very small hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another, and science will do for them all they wish and more than they dream.

The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

(In war) the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.