By RAY ADLER
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Winston Churchill said, “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” He had numerous other sayings:
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
I’m easily satisfied with the very best.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak: courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
A politician needs to have the ability to foretell what’s going to happen tomorrow and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Show me a young conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart, but show me an old liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.
A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk,’ to which I replied, ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly.”
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.” Winston Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Please don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
In the course of my life, I’ve often had to eat my words and I must confess that I’ve always found it to be a wholesome diet.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Our own former Representative Roudebush said the politicians today are lying all the time about everything. He said when he was in Congress, politicians never lied – unless they just had to.
Educational material and not legal advice, written by the team at Adler attorneys. Email andrea@noblesvilleattorney.com with questions or comments.