About Winston Churchill

Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Born November 30, 1874Bleinheim Palace, Woodstock, England
Died January 24, 1965London, England
British Prime Minister 1940-1945, 1951-1955.
The repository contains 18 quotes from Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Classics • History
Let us 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.”
Classics
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Courage and Fear
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Truth
This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is.

Optimism and Pessimism
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Miscellaneous
If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

Miscellaneous
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Courage and Fear
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Miscellaneous
Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

Opinion
A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject.

Comebacks
Upon being informed by a fellow Member of Parliament that his fly was open:
It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

Comebacks
Upon being told by Lady Astor, "If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea.":
If I were your husband, I’d drink it!

Comebacks
Upon being told, "Must you fall asleep while I'm speaking?":
No, it’s purely voluntary.

Comebacks
To Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock, who told him, "Winston, you're drunk.":
Bessie, you’re ugly. And tomorrow morning I’ll be sober, but you’ll still be ugly.

Politics and Government
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Success and Failure
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Truth There are a terrible lot of lies going about in the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are truth Politics and Government
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen

Shakespeare's quotes

All's Well That Ends Well, I:2
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

From Romeo and Juliet, II:2
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Twelfth Night, II:5
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Merchant of Venice, III:1
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Hamlet, I:5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

MacBeth, I:3
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.

Twelfth Night, III:1
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Antony & Cleopatra, III:4
If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.

Midsummer Night's Dream, V:1
It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.

34 hospitalized after co-worker sprays perfume

FORT WORTH, Texas – At first, fire officials suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center. It turned out that perfume was to blame. MedStar ambulance spokeswoman Lara Kohl says 34 people were taken to hospitals, 12 by ambulance, after reporting dizziness and shortness of breath Wednesday at a Bank of America call center in Fort Worth. An additional 110 were treated at the scene.
Fort Worth fire Lt. Kent Worley said the incident started with two people complaining about dizziness after a co-worker sprayed perfume. Others reported being sick when an announcement was made that anyone with similar symptoms should exit the building. Investigators do not know what type of perfume was sprayed.

Teen escapes jail over bomb hoax

LONDON (Reuters) – A British teen-ager who phoned the White House and claimed as part of a "drunken prank" that there was a bomb in the center of New York, escaped jail on Monday. Thomas Hutchinson, 19, from Sheffield, northern England, made a "giggling" call to the White House switchboard after drinking with friends at a barbecue last May, and claimed there was a bomb in Madison Square Garden.
The operator pressed a malicious call trace button and it was found to have been made in Britain. Prosecutor Stephen Acaster said there was great concern when the call was first received but it was soon realized it was a hoax and Madison Square Garden was not evacuated.
Hutchinson was tracked down following an investigation involving the American secret service, the FBI, the New York City Police department and British counter-terrorism police. He initially denied the charge when he was interviewed by police but later pleaded guilty, the Press Association reported.
At Sheffield Magistrates Court Monday, he was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. "One minute's thoughtlessness by you, one moment of madness, one drunken prank, all had very serious consequences," Judge Tony Browne said.
"The reaction to a bomb hoax involving central New York is understandably taken initially very seriously." Hutchinson's lawyer Geoff Flemming said it was unlikely Hutchinson would be a "welcome visitor" to the United States in the future.
"What happened is evidently a young man of good character, who was at the time 17, in the company of his friends, has far too much to drink and does something which is breathtakingly silly," he said.

Man sleeping in dumpster gets picked up with trash

TAMPA, Fla. – Authorities said a man, who had been sleeping in a Dumpster, sustained minor injuries after he was picked up by a garbage truck along with the trash. Authorities said that when firefighters and paramedics arrived, they heard Kevin Hallaran, 52, banging on the metal sides of the sanitation truck asking for help.

Hallaran had been sleeping inside a Dumpster behind a restaurant Sunday night and had been unknowingly dumped along with the garbage from restaurants and other businesses into the truck early Monday.

A sanitation department employee had not yet activated the truck's compactor after he mistakenly dumped Hallaran inside.

Authorities said the compactor would most likely have killed Hallaran.

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Phrasal verb list

this is a good list of phrasal verbs you can print out.

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm