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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
But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.
— Agatha Christie
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
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God.
— Alexandre Dumas
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
— Winston S. Churchill
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
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
Were he, the great Lord Steldor, another man, I might have spent the afternoon smiling.
— Cayla Kluver
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
— Alfred The Great
I would not lose so great an honorAs one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have. — William Shakespeare
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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 machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
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
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
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
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
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
A Great Man Has Two Hearts.One Bleeds And The Other Forbears. — Kahlil Gibran
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
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
It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ...
— Garcilaso De La Vega
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods ... But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall — Mary E. Pearson
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid
— Cheng Man-ch'ing
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.
— Anthony Trollope
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
Every man has a wild beast within him.
— Frederick The Great
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
— Corliss Lamont
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
— Jane Espenson
No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
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
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
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
— Malachy McCourt
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 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
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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 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
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
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 frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
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
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
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold