Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 2185.

  • Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Thomas J. Watson The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arnold Bennett The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Frank Dane The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Freya Stark The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Baltasar Gracian The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Lord George Byron The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • M. Scott Peck The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • William Shakespeare The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John Morley The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Voltaire The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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