No man is so great as mankind.

A great man is always willing to be little.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.

I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.

Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.

L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

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