Great Quotes - page 4

Meetings are a great trap. ... they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. View quote
Emil Cioran
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. View quote
Edith Wharton
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. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. View quote
Mother Teresa
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. (Leon Trotsky)
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. View quote
Ilya Ehrenburg
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. View quote
Stephen Spender
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. View quote
Sydney Smith
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain)
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. View quote
Elias Canetti
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
California is a great place to live - if you happen to be an orange. View quote
Fred Allen
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. View quote
Victor Hugo
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