(519 quotes found)
“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
Epictetus
“Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
Baltasar Gracian
“O, no! the apprehension of the goodGives but the greater feeling to the worse.”
William Shakespeare
“If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.”
Plato
“Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue”
Jeremy Taylor
“[As for the group's political bite, there's no greater example than the recent single, B.Y.O.B ., inspired by a TV ad for the Army.] It glamorized going into the Army, ... It made it look like a party where everybody was going to have a good time.”
Daron Malakian
“The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.”
Carl Lewis
“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games.”
Cathy Freeman
“The workman still is greater than his work”
Menander of Athens
