“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its g...” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

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

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

“I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn't think it would be this great.”

“On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.”