Little Quotes

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

Learning, May, Dangerous

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Business, Death, Heart

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII

Great, Deal, Correct

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
Dolly Parton

Hope, Home, Husband

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland

Love, Happy, Woman

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

Education, Reality, Isolation

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Help, Cannot

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
Lewis Black

Health, Ego, Why

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

Mother, Father, Children

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos

Courage, Healing, Find

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

Important, Write, Possible

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Giving, Serious, Around

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

Country, Greatness, Determined

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus

Soul, Around, Carrying

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

Women, Live, Beat

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Epicurus

Nothing, Enough, Whom

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger

Takes, Longer, Illegal

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Money, Food, Books

Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau

Love, Home, Enjoy

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Politics, Great, Wisdom

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Courage, Keep

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

Sex, Important, Satisfied

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell

Alone, Live, Remember

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Passion, Fire

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

Truth, Lie, Find

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Great, Minds, Rise

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Long, Often

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