“An idea is not made great merely because great men die in defense of it.” — Melissa McPhail Copy Share Image
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great.” — Arnold Glasgow Copy Share Image
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their… — Latin Proverb Copy Share Image
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear… — Horace Copy Share Image
I don't feel the pressure to deliver an unrealistically great man to the screen; I just want to be honest to who… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a… — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man" — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems. — Israel Meir Kagan Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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