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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
— Charlie Chaplin
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
— Henry F. Ashurst
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
— Bertolt Brecht
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
— Alexander Pope
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
— Francois Mitterrand
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He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
— David Lloyd George
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
— Stuart Weitzman
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
— Richard LaGravenese
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
— Isadora Duncan
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
— Anna C. Brackett
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
— John Webster
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
— William James
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
— Cyrus The Great
It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.
— Paul Gauguin
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.
— Marion Barry
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
— John Tillotson
Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!
— Ralph Jordan
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
— Euripides
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
— Brandon Sanderson
A Great Man Has Two Hearts.One Bleeds And The Other Forbears. — Kahlil Gibran
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
— Dick Cavett
CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION
— Charles Dickens
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
— Ambrose Bierce
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
— Georgette Heyer
You know how they say behind every great man there's a great woman? My mother would say, No, the woman is three steps ahead.
— Renee Carlino
All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.
— Sri Chinmoy
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
— Robert Morley
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.
— Erik Christian Haugaard
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
— Michael Crichton
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
— John Woolman
It's pathetic - how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great. Trudy
— Markus Zusak
And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.
— William Hope Hodgson
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
— Alexander Smith
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
— G. M. Trevelyan
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
— James Monroe
I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
— Cindy McCain
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
— Anuj
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
— Bertrand Russell
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.
— Jose Andres
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
— Frank Herbert
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
— Tom Heinsohn
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
— John Le Carre
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
— Louis Farrakhan
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
— Julianna Baggott
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
— Francesco Guicciardini
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
— Adolf Hitler
You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
— Emile Durkheim
Great, he was going to have PMS for at least a few days. Pissy Man Syndrome.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
— Kate Jacobs
No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
There is no releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
