“Often behind a great man there is great pain.”

“Behind every great man is a pickpocket.”

“Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.”

“It is said that behind every great man lies a great woman. This is because women lie.”

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

“Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him”

“Behind of a great queen is always a great king.”

“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.”

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it — that is great, that belongs to greatness.”

“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B. C…(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy…. Well, this one left them all behind.”