977 private quotes tagged great

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Thrift is of great revenue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.” — Edmund Burke

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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” — Lee Iacocca

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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.” — Plutarch

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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — George Eliot

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.” — Nelson Mandela

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