“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”
More from Sir Winston Churchill on Wisdom
“...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.”
“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
“All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.”
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
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Sun Tzu
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Dalai Lama
22 quotes“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“Honesty's the best policy.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
Confucius
19 quotes“If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
George Washington
14 quotes“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.”