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
“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.” — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“People who achieve great success do so by persistently and successfully meeting the challenges on The Path. Their stories are found in… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“You mean Heiron,’ said Lamen. ‘Yes, that’s right,’ said Charls. ‘I can’t meet Heiron,’ said Lamen. ‘It’s understandable to be nervous around… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
