I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or... →
Aretha Franklin
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I... →
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at... →
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.