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
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
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life. — Marge Piercy 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
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
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Death paused, his hand on the spine of the book. And why do you think I directed you to the stables? think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The discipline of history is particularly important in this context because while science has had a direct impact on how historians write,… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
Great men are just ordinary men, who wont quit! Dont quit on Gods plan & purpose for your life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and… — JC Marino Copy Share Image
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
