A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. – Emily Dickinson
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. – Ellen G. White
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber. – Robert Fulghum
Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. – Gunter Grass
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. – George Whitefield
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
