Famous Quotes

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

Samuel Richardson 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 Richardson

• "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

• "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

• "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

• "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

• "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."