Little Men Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. — Amelia Barr
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. — Fred Allen
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are… — C.S. Lewis
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. — Bella Abzug
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred — Booker T. Washington
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. — Wilferd Peterson
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest… — Marcus Aurelius
Little things are great to little men. — Oliver Goldsmith
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in… — Vince Lombardi
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they… — Thomas Carlyle
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and… — Mencius
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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