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Men Great World Quotes

This collection holds 11 men great world quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Rebecca Harding Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Betty Williams.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Rebecca Harding Davis / Author

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. / Physician

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Betty Williams / Nobel Laureate

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Henry Fielding / Novelist

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Ezra Taft Benson / Farmer

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Heather Mac Donald

Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.

Sydney Smith / Scientist

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Bertrand Russell / Philosopher

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Gilbert Gottfried / Comedian

The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

Bryan Batt / Actor

When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

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