“It is plain to see, when a great man is not long for this world, for he makes a fool of himself” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
Behind every great man is a great woman who gives him all that false confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I have an excellent team, a great manager, and we're going to put something together: we're going to start a foundation, and… — Kamaru Usman Copy Share Image
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If a person really wants to know God and will give up his sin and turn to Christ, God will make Himself… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
“Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You are ashamed to open your Bible and read that blessed Psalm, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” You… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days.… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes—clothes so grand and rich that only a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Adam found his father out. It wasn’t that his father changed but that some new quality came to Adam. He had always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Don't you think Rycca would like to hear about Hadding, the warrior Odin rescued from his enemies? Indeed, so would I for… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
He was just Dad. But it's hard to deny who he was when you're brought out on stage, and you're standing beside… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force.… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image