"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." ― Queen Victoria Topic(s): Great More From Queen Victoria "When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage." "I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness." "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one." More In Great "It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."― Sun Tzu "No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."― Calvin Coolidge "Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."― Charles Caleb Colton