Great Quotes

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Barack Obama

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Wole Soyinka

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Humphry Davy

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Muhammad Ali

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Stanley

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke