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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
— Blaise Pascal
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
— Pearl S. Buck
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
— Wallace D. Wattles
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
— Winston S. Churchill
It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time.
— Stephen King
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
— Elton Trueblood
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
— Matt Damon
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
— Mencius
The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
— Luke Scull
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
— Andrew Marvell
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
— Francois Mitterrand
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
— Lord Byron
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
— Oscar Wilde
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
— Johnny Ramone
Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
— Will Rogers
Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.
— Joba Chamberlain
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
— Henry Steele Commager
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.
— Jakob Bohme
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
— John Webster
It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.
— Stephanie Sigman
For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.
— Amy Lane
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
— George Foreman
He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.]3
— Michel De Montaigne
I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.
— Jack Nicklaus
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
— Spurgeon, Charles H.
When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
— Steven Moffat
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
— Ryan Phillippe
There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.
— Agatha Christie
I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.
— Matthew Goode
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
— George S. Patton
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
— Matthew Henry
The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
— Jesse Ventura
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
— Dean Acheson
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
— Holbrook Jackson
I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies
— Olive Schreiner
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
— Dhani Harrison
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
— Olaf Stapledon
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
— Henry James
L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.
— Jerrod Carmichael
[M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.
— John S. Hall
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
— Jane Austen
I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
— Joel Madden
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
— George Horace Lorimer
I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
— Adolf Hitler
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
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
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
— Orison Swett Marden
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
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
— C.S. Lewis
— 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
A man cannot stand in the shadow of another's greatness and think himself great. He must go out and earn his own greatness- The Reverend
— Ian Totten
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION
— Charles Dickens
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
There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
— Thomas Adams
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
He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
— Harrison Ford
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
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
— T. S. Eliot
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
— Andre Maurois
Shakespeare's great."
Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man. — Alex Flinn
Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man. — Alex Flinn
I'm not worried about that. Aidan loves Sam, and a man can do great things when he's motivated by love. Maggie
— Lauren Gilley
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
— Alan Jackson
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
— Thomas Fuller
Women and taxes, the two great banes of any man's life.
— Mina Carter
You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
— Rachel E. Carter
It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'
— Jencarlos Canela
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
— Paul Valery