The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

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

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson