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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. -- Herodotu
• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. Herodotu
• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
• Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
  -- John Derek (in Knock on Any Door, screenplay by Willard Motley)...
• Great acts are made up of small deeds. -- Lao Tsu
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....
• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. -- Francis Baco
• What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones?
  Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?...