The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The great events in our lives are physical. Childbirth. Sex. Combat. Death. Not poetry, or music, or the thoughts of great men… — Natasha Mostert Copy Share Image
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
