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QUOTES including the word: "little"

Schopenhauer:
  • Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

    • Kepler:
  • Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

    • Horace:
  • Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

    • Jacques Prevert:
  • Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, you should never completely forget about it.

    • Mark Twain:
  • Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

    • Rilke:
  • Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

    • Saramago:
  • In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

    • Andre Malraux:
  • What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

    • Per Lagerkvist:
  • Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

    • Walt Whitman:
  • “Resist much, obey little.”

    • Calderon:
  • What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

    • Ray Charles:
  • Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

    • Hafez:
  • Why do those who demand repentance, repent so little themselves?

    • Irena Sendler:
  • I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

    • Virginia Satir:
  • So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

    • Saramago:
  • Each day is a little bit of history.

    • Adam Smith:
  • To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

    • Galeano:
  • Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.

    • Remarque:
  • Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

    • Langston Hughes:
  • Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

    • Epictetus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

    • Montessori:
  • When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Either be silent or say things of more value than silence. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

    • Hippocrates:
  • If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

    • Baudelaire:
  • Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

    • Emile Zola:
  • I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

    • Shakespeare:
  • We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

    • Kazantzakis:
  • I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

    • Diderot:
  • We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

    • Saadi:
  • A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

    • Rousseau:
  • People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

    • Remarque:
  • To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

    • Jules Verne:
  • If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

    • Gauguin:
  • Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

    • Graham Bell:
  • A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones.

    • Beckett:
  • ll I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

    • Jean Genet:
  • I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

    • Krishnamurti:
  • You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

    • Plato:
  • The greatest wealth is to be content with little.

    • Epicurus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • Very little is needed to make a happy life.

    • Washington:
  • Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

    • B. W. Yeats:
  • Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

    • Heinrich Bell:
  • I need very little reality.

    • George Orwell:
  • Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

    • Alexander Pope,:
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

    • Diogenes:
  • It is the privilege of the Gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

    • Brecht:
  • The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

    • Diderot:
  • The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

    • Goethe:
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

    • Jules Verne:
  • Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

    • Dante:
  • O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

    • Marcel Proust:
  • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

    • Dante:
  • O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

    • Seneca:
  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • 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.

    • Franz Kafka:
  • Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

    • Heraclitus:
  • I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

    • Cervantes:
  • That which costs little is less valued.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

    • William James:
  • Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

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