Famous Quotes: Great

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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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.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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