Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
John C. Maxwell

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
Nicolaus Copernicus

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
Leonardo DiCaprio