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We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis. Margot Lee Shetterly

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Pietro Aretino

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Yousuf Karsh

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Oswald Mosley

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

John Keegan

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Jules Renard

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Gustav Stresemann

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis Carrel

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

Betty Williams

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Stephen Fry

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Ray Stannard Baker

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

Leslie Stephen

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Jim Bakker

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Joe Wurzelbacher

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

Orison Swett Marden

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

E. M. Forster

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

A. J. P. Taylor

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

James Loeb