Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Moore

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

John Schultz

Dan Nichols loved his job. He did a difficult job well. As we've heard, Dan was especially good with kids on medical jobs, consoling them and reassuring them on the way to the hospital.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All beginnings are very troublesome things ...

Anupam Kher

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Samuel Johnson

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.