Famous quotes containing the word greatly:
“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honors at the stake.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)