“When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.”
Reply to King George VI, on a cold morning at the airport. The King had asked if Churchill would take something to warm himself. As cited in Man of the Century (2002), Ramsden, Columbia University Press, p. 134 ISBN 0231131062
Post-war years (1945–1955)
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“I have made it a rule never to employ a larger telescope when a smaller will answer the purpose.”
Source: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880), Ch.4 "Life and Works".
Source: posthumous, Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews, 2006, pp. 23,28: quote in Dubuffet's letter to Jean Paulhan (letter 108)
On writing his book Truffle Boy in “Ian Purkayastha: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/ian-purkayastha-write/ in The Writer (2017 Aug 7)
The Credo of Empowerment, as quoted in David M. Mandell Atheist Acrimonious (Vervante, 2008), p. 176.
“I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.”
Conversation with Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (11 November 1816), Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, v. 4, p. 133 http://books.google.com/books?id=945jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133.
Context: I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
Tita Valderama, "The Phenomenon of Chiz Escudero", Newsbreak, 2007 July-September, p. 21.
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