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
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
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
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
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
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
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
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)
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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