Great Quotes

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Mitt Romney

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E. B. White

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Donald Trump

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe