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3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

3 December 2020 Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

3 December 2020 Susan Powter

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can’t be fat and healthy.

3 December 2020 Larry Hagman

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

3 December 2020 Samuel Richardson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

3 December 2020 Herb Brooks

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

3 December 2020 Giorgos Seferis

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

3 December 2020 Frida Kahlo

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

3 December 2020 Queen Victoria

Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

3 December 2020 James A. Michener

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

3 December 2020 Pamela Anderson

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.

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