Famous Quotes

"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."

Samuel Butler 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 Samuel Butler

• "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

• "The history of art is the history of revivals."

• "Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

• "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

• "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."