We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The little man is still a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly Parton

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung