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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
-- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley...
The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
-- Theodore Roosevel...
The great wall of China was built in 221 - 206 B.C.
and stretches for 2,150 miles across the northern border of the Chinese Empire....
The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lv, Stanza 4...
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army.
Their system was to make every...
The Greeks - impoverished descendants of a bunch of la-de-da fruit salads who invented democracy and then forgot how to use it while walking around dressed up like girls.
The green button, gentlemen! -- Doctor 4, FULL CIRCLE
The green mantle of the standing pool. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act iii, Sc.
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