Monthly Archives: March 2015

Don Draper

“I a a pretty dull and paltry scribbler; but my stick as it writes carries my heart along with it.” DDB comment: Winston Churchill published five books by age 25, published more words than Dickens and Shakespeare combined and won … Continue reading →

“He is there as role model for anyone who wasn’t much good at school, anyone who never made it to university, anyone who wasn’t much cop at maths.” “He speaks for all those who have worried about living up to … Continue reading →

Unknown

Charles Moran, doctor to Winston Churchill.

“It is a comment on the natural laziness of human beings that other people tend to judge you mainly according to your own judgement of yourself.”

“Insurance brings the miracle of averages to the rescue of the masses.”

Irish proverb

The Ninth Earl of Spencer

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.” Speech to the full Cabinet, May 28, 1940, on the … Continue reading →