Greatest Quotes

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.