Famous Quotes

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Robert Benchley

• "A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."

• "I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."

• "A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."

• "You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."

• "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."