Quotes of: Great-men Keyword

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

Salman Rushdie

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

Michelle Wie

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Minister: [singing at pilot's funeral] Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, in darkened storm or sunlight glare. O, hear us when we lift our prayer, for those in peril in the air. ...

The Right Stuff

Hedley Lamarr: Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Blazing Saddles

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, me...

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's the great generosity of women and the great generosity of the creator who worked it out that way, that there are no unila...

Leonard Cohen

Abe: My great-grandfather told my grandfather, "Men are like spiders. It's the little ones you've got to be careful of." Joe: Don't know I agree with that. Abe: Yeah? Huh. What the fuck did my great-grandfather know?

Looper

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Comte de Lautreamont

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

D. H. Lawrence

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

John Fowles

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

James J. Hill

The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in new contexts.

Josh Helman