Little Men Quotes
41 quotes by 35 authors
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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
— Amelia Barr
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
— Fred Allen
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
— Bella Abzug
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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
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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
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
— Booker T. Washington
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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
— Wilferd Peterson
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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
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Little things are great to little men.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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