Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
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