Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Richard Bach

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman

I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Chuck Palahniuk

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw