A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Today we celebrate the pride and spirit of the great men and women who have worked hard to improve the lives of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“DO! Don’t be concerned about what you are doing – do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
“There are, on the other hand, very great men, very holy men, very pure men in every way, whose knowledge is wide… — G. de Purucker Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
The Great men of history spoke the truth for what it is not how they wished it to be. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image