Best Great Man Proverbs
273 Great Man quotes by 195 unique authors
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder…
— Frederick Exley
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A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
— Stephen King
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that…
— Beryl Markham
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the…
— Arthur Miller
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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all…
— Milton Friedman
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Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon…
— Stefan Zweig
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A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."…
— Karen White
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Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
— Jane Espenson
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
— Tariq Ramadan
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Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping me from completely…
— Pittacus Lore
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
— Mencius
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
— Confucius
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
— Seneca the Younger
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