If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
Steven Wright

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Peter Drucker

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau