Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars. — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is… — William P King Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Most great men start in that position, with very little and that's what motivates them to get where they're going. — Caleb Plant Copy Share Image
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“It is easy to blame your lot in life on some outside force, to stop trying because you believe fate is against… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“What I'm sure of is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“Yet, more is at stake in this debate beyond simply acknowledging the religious inclinations of those people involved in the nation’s founding.… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image