Extraordinary Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been…

— Michel de Montaigne

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Few men are admired by their servants.

— Michel de Montaigne

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

— William Halsey

“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.”

— Jayce O'Neal

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they…

— Nick Tosches

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

— Janusz Korczak

“Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.”

— Helen Simonson