“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: Erak's Ransom
“Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.”
Quoted in A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (3 October 1940), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 281
Later life
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