Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • W. C. Fields Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Aldous Huxley Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Small crimes always precedes great ones.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Demosthenes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Alighieri Dante Small projects need much more help than great.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bill Frist Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Tom Morris Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Conrad Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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