“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.”
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“Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.”
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit
Source: Aphorisms