Great Quotes - page 4

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. (Sydney Smith)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. View quote
William Shakespeare
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. View quote
Mark Twain
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. View quote
Elias Canetti
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
California is a great place to live - if you happen to be an orange. View quote
Fred Allen
Great ideas are not charitable. View quote
Henry de Montherlant
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. View quote
William Hazlitt
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. View quote
George Eliot
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. (George Eliot)
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. View quote
William O. Douglas
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. View quote
Georg Büchner
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. View quote
Bruce Lee
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. View quote
Robert Frost
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. View quote
Robert Benchley
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. View quote
Robert Benchley
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. (Robert Benchley)
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Great necessities call out great virtues. View quote
Abigail Adams
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. View quote
Zsa Zsa Gabor