[lbo-talk] Churchill the charmer

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Thu Dec 1 14:28:42 PST 2005


Well, he probably was a complete bastard; but he had some wit:

"There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are worked to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death." ...opening of "Art as a Passtime." Quite a nice little book on oil painting as a hobby. Very, very short. 50pp or so.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:

What's amazing about Churchill is that he was drunk every waking moment of his adult life.

Regards, Mike B)


> [via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>]
>
> THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT CHURCHILL SAID
>
> [From the Idler, UK <http://www.idler.co.uk/archives/?page_id=44>]
>
> 1909: As president of the Board of Trade, he nails his colors to the
> mast with the following statement. "There is no reason at all why
> people should wander about in a loafing and Idle manner; if they are
> not earning their living they ought to be put under some sort of
> control."

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