Greatest Contribution

Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or contribution:

“The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)