Famous Quotes

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."

Honore de Balzac 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 Honore de Balzac

• "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

• "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

• "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

• "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

• "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."