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Quotes About Greatest

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
~ John Stuart Blackie
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
~ Joseph Addison
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
~ Tobias Smollett
Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!
~ Tom Wells
The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
~ Marquis de Sade
I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
~ Aeschylus
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
~ Bob Dylan
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
~ Elizabeth George
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
~ Napoleon Hill
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
~ John Edgar Park
The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
~ Jim Edmonds
My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
~ Michele Bachmann
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
~ George Best
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
~ Claire Danes
I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.
~ Lola Kirke
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
~ Thomas Hood
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
~ Robert Ballard