Famous Quotes

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

Ambrose Bierce 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 Ambrose Bierce

• "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

• "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

• "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

• "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

• "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."