Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson