Quotes about Great Men

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Votes: 4

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Votes: 4

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Votes: 4

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Votes: 4

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse. Votes: 4

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. Votes: 3

the Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... Votes: 3

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. Votes: 3

Great hopes make great men. Votes: 2

Great men are almost always bad men. Votes: 2

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman. Votes: 2

It takes a great man to be a good listener. Votes: 2

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Votes: 2

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. Votes: 2

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. Votes: 2

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest. Votes: 2

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. Votes: 2

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Votes: 2

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. Votes: 2

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 2

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. Votes: 2

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. Votes: 2

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. Votes: 2

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. Votes: 2

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Votes: 2

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Votes: 2

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. Votes: 2

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Votes: 2

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Votes: 2

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. Votes: 2

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. Votes: 2

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. Votes: 2

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. Votes: 2

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family. Votes: 2

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. Votes: 2

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Votes: 2

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. Votes: 2

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. Votes: 2

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. Votes: 2

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. Votes: 2

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer. Votes: 2

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. Votes: 2

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man. Votes: 2

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter. Votes: 2

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. Votes: 2

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made. Votes: 2

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. Votes: 2

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Votes: 2

Great men are sincere. Votes: 0

Great men have great discipline. Votes: 0

Great men never require experience. Votes: 0

Great men can't be ruled. Votes: 0

Great men have big failures. Votes: 0

Great men always have dogs. Votes: 0

Great men have great dogs. Votes: 0

Humility makes great men twice honorable Votes: 0

Even great men can be corrupted Votes: 0

Great times call for great men. Votes: 0

Only great men have great faults. Votes: 0

Few great men could pass personal. Votes: 0

All great virtues become great men. Votes: 0

Produce great men, the rest follows. Votes: 0

Great men have always had dogs. Votes: 0

All great men are partially inspired. Votes: 0

Great men grow tired of contentedness. Votes: 0

Great men look greater than yesterday. Votes: 0

great men take and overtake risk tactically Votes: 0

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. Votes: 0

Great men are never cruel without necessity. Votes: 0

Commitment to great causes makes great men. Votes: 0

Great men, like nature, use simple language. Votes: 0

Responsiblity is the great developer of men. Votes: 0

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands. Votes: 0

Great men always pay deference to greater. Votes: 0

Men, in general, are but great children. Votes: 0

The great men of antiquity were poor. Votes: 0

Little things are great to little men. Votes: 0

Great men should not have great faults. Votes: 0

Know the great men of your age. Votes: 0

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity. Votes: 0

It is the success which makes great men. Votes: 0

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. Votes: 0

Great men may die, but there ideas won't. Votes: 0

Great men have the nature of a child. Votes: 0

Few great men would have got past personnel. Votes: 0

Great causes and little men go ill together. Votes: 0

The hearts of great men can be changed. Votes: 0

All great men remain undeterred during dark times. Votes: 0

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding. Votes: 0

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination. Votes: 0

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit. Votes: 0

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Votes: 0

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. Votes: 0

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . Votes: 0

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings Votes: 0

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. Votes: 0

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles. Votes: 0

How great in number are the little minded men. Votes: 0

Great men exist that there might be greater men. Votes: 0

Great men are sometimes so even in small things. Votes: 0

All great men come out of the middle classes. Votes: 0

great men burn bridges before they come to them Votes: 0

How great in number are the little minded men Votes: 0

Men are only as great as they are kind. Votes: 0

All great poets have been men of great knowledge. Votes: 0

Great men are made in the crucible of experiences Votes: 0

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world Votes: 0

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful, Votes: 0

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. Votes: 0

All great men are play actors of their own ideal. Votes: 0

More men have become great through practice than by nature. Votes: 0

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. Votes: 0

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. Votes: 0

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. Votes: 0

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is. Votes: 0

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. Votes: 0

None but great men are capable of having great flaws. Votes: 0

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. Votes: 0

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation Votes: 0

Great men are allowed to spill the blood of others. Votes: 0

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought. Votes: 0

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. Votes: 0

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations. Votes: 0

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. Votes: 0

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. Votes: 0

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Votes: 0

There is no more great men; there is only great committees. Votes: 0

There are two types of men: the great and the small. Votes: 0

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. Votes: 0

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men. Votes: 0

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. Votes: 0

The world cannot live at the level of its great men. Votes: 0

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. Votes: 0

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. Votes: 0

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards. Votes: 0

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted; Votes: 0

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies. Votes: 0

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. Votes: 0

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. Votes: 0

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. Votes: 0

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men Votes: 0

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men. Votes: 0

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Votes: 0

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men! Votes: 0

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth. Votes: 0

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Votes: 0

To please great men is not the last degree of praise. Votes: 0

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. Votes: 0

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Votes: 0

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. Votes: 0

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. Votes: 0

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. Votes: 0

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. Votes: 0

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. Votes: 0

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. Votes: 0

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. Votes: 0

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Votes: 0

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. Votes: 0

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. Votes: 0

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. Votes: 0

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 0

Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others. Votes: 0

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. Votes: 0

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it. Votes: 0

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred Votes: 0

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. Votes: 0

There would be no great men if there were no little ones. Votes: 0

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. Votes: 0

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men. Votes: 0

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show. Votes: 0

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. Votes: 0

Great men don't 'move to the center' great men move the center! Votes: 0

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. Votes: 0

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Votes: 0

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men. Votes: 0

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. Votes: 0

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. Votes: 0

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. Votes: 0

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds. Votes: 0

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune. Votes: 0

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men. Votes: 0

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ. Votes: 0

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. Votes: 0

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Votes: 0

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men Votes: 0

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 0

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. Votes: 0

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. Votes: 0

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great. Votes: 0

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. Votes: 0

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. Votes: 0

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. Votes: 0

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. Votes: 0

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. Votes: 0

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Votes: 0

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. Votes: 0

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering. Votes: 0

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. Votes: 0

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Votes: 0

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. Votes: 0

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Votes: 0

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. Votes: 0

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. Votes: 0

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. Votes: 0

I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement. Votes: 0

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. Votes: 0

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. Votes: 0

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. Votes: 0

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. Votes: 0

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. Votes: 0

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Votes: 0

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way. Votes: 0

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Votes: 0

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. Votes: 0

Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows. Votes: 0

In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY. Votes: 0

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle. Votes: 0

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] Votes: 0

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. Votes: 0

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Votes: 0

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. Votes: 0

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. Votes: 0

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. Votes: 0

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. Votes: 0

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. Votes: 0

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. Votes: 0

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Votes: 0

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. Votes: 0

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Votes: 0

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. Votes: 0

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. Votes: 0

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none Votes: 0

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. Votes: 0

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Votes: 0

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. Votes: 0

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Votes: 0

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. Votes: 0

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. Votes: 0

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. Votes: 0

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. Votes: 0

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. Votes: 0

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Votes: 0

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Votes: 0

One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. Votes: 0

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. Votes: 0

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. Votes: 0

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper. Votes: 0

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. Votes: 0

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Votes: 0

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. Votes: 0

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. Votes: 0

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. Votes: 0

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. Votes: 0

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. Votes: 0

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there. Votes: 0

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. Votes: 0

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. Votes: 0

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. Votes: 0

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. Votes: 0

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep. Votes: 0

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Votes: 0

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 0

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. Votes: 0

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. Votes: 0

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. Votes: 0

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Votes: 0

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement. Votes: 0

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. Votes: 0

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. Votes: 0

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me. Votes: 0

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people. Votes: 0

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. Votes: 0

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air. Votes: 0

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. Votes: 0

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. Votes: 0

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. Votes: 0

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. Votes: 0

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Votes: 0

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. Votes: 0

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. Votes: 0

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. Votes: 0

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. Votes: 0

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. Votes: 0

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough. Votes: 0

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? Votes: 0

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. Votes: 0

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men. Votes: 0

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Votes: 0

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor." Votes: 0

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. Votes: 0

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. Votes: 0

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. Votes: 0

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. Votes: 0

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally Votes: 0

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Votes: 0

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. Votes: 0

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. Votes: 0

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Votes: 0

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. Votes: 0

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. Votes: 0

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. Votes: 0

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. Votes: 0

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Votes: 0

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Votes: 0

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. Votes: 0

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Votes: 0

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. Votes: 0

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great. Votes: 0

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. Votes: 0

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. Votes: 0

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. Votes: 0

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. Votes: 0

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian) Votes: 0

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Votes: 0

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable Votes: 0

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. Votes: 0

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 0

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves Votes: 0

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 0

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. Votes: 0

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer. Votes: 0

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Votes: 0

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. Votes: 0

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. Votes: 0

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. Votes: 0

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. Votes: 0

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. Votes: 0

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story. Votes: 0

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Votes: 0

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. Votes: 0

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. Votes: 0

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. Votes: 0

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. Votes: 0

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams. Votes: 0

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. Votes: 0

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. Votes: 0

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. Votes: 0

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. Votes: 0

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men. Votes: 0

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage Votes: 0

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. Votes: 0

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Votes: 0

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen. Votes: 0

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. Votes: 0

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness. Votes: 0

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. Votes: 0

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. Votes: 0

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. Votes: 0

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Votes: 0

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. Votes: 0

A great many men--some comparatively small men now--if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. Votes: 0

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. Votes: 0

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. Votes: 0

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. Votes: 0

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Votes: 0

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Votes: 0

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy. Votes: 0

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward. Votes: 0

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! Votes: 0

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Votes: 0

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. Votes: 0

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. Votes: 0

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. Votes: 0

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. Votes: 0

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... Votes: 0

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive! Votes: 0

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men! Votes: 0

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. Votes: 0

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. Votes: 0

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. Votes: 0

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. Votes: 0

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. Votes: 0

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. Votes: 0

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. Votes: 0

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men. Votes: 0

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. Votes: 0

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. Votes: 0

I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.' Votes: 0

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. Votes: 0

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. Votes: 0

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. Votes: 0

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. Votes: 0

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. Votes: 0

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. Votes: 0

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. Votes: 0

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men. Votes: 0

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. Votes: 0

Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men. Votes: 0

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. Votes: 0

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them. Votes: 0

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. Votes: 0

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. Votes: 0

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men. Votes: 0

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. Votes: 0

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. Votes: 0

Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. Votes: 0

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. Votes: 0

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions. Votes: 0

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. Votes: 0

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements. Votes: 0

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. Votes: 0

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. Votes: 0

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley Votes: 0

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. Votes: 0

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Votes: 0

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel Votes: 0

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. Votes: 0

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit Votes: 0

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen Votes: 0

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness. Votes: 0

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? Votes: 0

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. Votes: 0

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. Votes: 0

I think Hanson is gonna be around for a long time. I think that they're three great, talented young men. Votes: 0

The greatest men that ever lived were not born with great spoons but were able to convert great tests to greatness Votes: 0

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. Votes: 0

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Votes: 0

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. Votes: 0

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. Votes: 0

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! Votes: 0

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths. Votes: 0

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. Votes: 0

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. Votes: 0

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Votes: 0

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. Votes: 0

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution. Votes: 0

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead Votes: 0

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men. Votes: 0

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. Votes: 0

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. Votes: 0

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. Votes: 0

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Votes: 0

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. Votes: 0

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world. Votes: 0

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Votes: 0

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels. Votes: 0

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. Votes: 0

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. Votes: 0

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things. Votes: 0

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Votes: 0

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends. Votes: 0

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. Votes: 0

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. Votes: 0

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. Votes: 0

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes. Votes: 0

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. Votes: 0

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. Votes: 0

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand. Votes: 0

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men. Votes: 0

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. Votes: 0

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. Votes: 0

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. Votes: 0

Whoever walk with great people will be great. But those who dare read the history of great men and women will be greater. Votes: 0

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love Votes: 0

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance. Votes: 0

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us. Votes: 0

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. Votes: 0

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. Votes: 0

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? Votes: 0

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. Votes: 0

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others. Votes: 0

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by. Votes: 0

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. Votes: 0

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. Votes: 0

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. Votes: 0

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men. Votes: 0

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones. Votes: 0

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. Votes: 0

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head. Votes: 0

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. Votes: 0

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Votes: 0

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. Votes: 0

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. Votes: 0

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. Votes: 0

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. Votes: 0

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction. Votes: 0

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great Votes: 0

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war. Votes: 0

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. Votes: 0

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. Votes: 0

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish. Votes: 0

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. Votes: 0

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. Votes: 0

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. Votes: 0

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position. Votes: 0

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do. Votes: 0

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more. Votes: 0

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live. Votes: 0

The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life. Votes: 0

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. Votes: 0