Great Quotes

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

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.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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.

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

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

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

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.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

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.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

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

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Sublimity is the echo of great mind.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

I have great memories.