Famous Quotes

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them."

Washington Irving 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 Washington Irving

• "Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

• "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

• "Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

• "After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty."

• "Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."