Pygmy Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
— Karl Marx
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd…
— John Dryden
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I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
— Mark Twain
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And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.
— Richard Hammond
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
— Oliver Herford
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking…
— Novalis
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Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth…
— Jonathan Stroud
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You'd think people had better things to gossip about, said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harrys legs and reading…
— JK Rowling
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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows
— Charles M De Talleyrand
Who Wrote These Pygmy Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Pygmy Quotes as follows: