998 Quotes Regarding Great


Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Gunter Grass

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Jeff Foxworthy

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastiat

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
George Whitefield

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld