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What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. — Anne Frank

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. — Mark Twain

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — Michel De Montaigne

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

He loves deep ... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men. — Forrest Carter

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again — Lewis Carroll

In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself ... I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see. — C.S. Lewis

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed. — S.C. Barrus

Great men's value increases with age. — Habeeb Akande

My night shall be remembered for a star
That outshone all the suns of all men's days — Rupert Brooke

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women ... — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

One of life's great secrets: women don't look for handsome men, they look for men with beautiful women. — Tucker Max

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

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater. — Madeline Kahn

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

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. — Socrates

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

I love how men like my books just as much as women do. It's a great compliment; one I did not expect. — A.S. Wilshire

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed. — Joba Chamberlain

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. — Matthew Arnold

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men — Siddharth Katragadda

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace

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

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His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. — James S.A. Corey

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

If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-. — Cher

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness. — Saladin

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

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? — Thomas A Kempis

[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

Hudson Taylor once observed, "All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them."3 — Crossway

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder

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

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The 5th 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. — William O. Douglas

Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls. — R. William Bennett

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels. — Ellen G. White

Men make this great pretense of not wanting to be caught, but in the end they usually beg for a lady's hand. — Elizabeth Boyle

Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were. — James S.A. Corey

Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion - in men's souls. It — Paramahansa Yogananda

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. — Edward McKendree Bounds

That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure".
"Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid. — Kristina Douglas

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not. — Henry Cuyler Bunner

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great. — George S. Patton

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx ... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness. — Matthew Henry

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson

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

That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living. — Kate Lord Brown

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. — John Steinbeck

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

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer

When you read great literature, you become a thousand men and yet still be yourself. — C.S. Lewis

A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army. — Anya Wylde

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War — Pierce Brown

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. — Orison Swett Marden

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

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

The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook. — Bobby Flay

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. — Adolf Hitler

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

To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! — Frederic Chopin

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

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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 have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes. — Jed S. Rakoff

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

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. — S.D. Gordon

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot. — Harrison Ford

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. — Blaise Pascal

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will. — Anthony The Great

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth. — Criss Jami

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

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. — Zooey Deschanel

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters. — Michelle Wie

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. — C.S. Lewis

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish. — Rob Lowe

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Edward L. Bernays

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. — Thiruvalluvar

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. — James Hudson Taylor

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. — Willa Cather