There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.
How great man would be were he not so arrogant.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use th...
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
the death of a great man demands the birth of a great son
There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
