3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
3 December 2020 William Osler The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
3 December 2020 Donald Trump I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
3 December 2020 Ron White I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
3 December 2020 William James Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
3 December 2020 John Locke It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
