Quotes About Legacy

I hope they bury me near a strait man

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.