Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 340 authors

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was… — Terry Pratchett
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. — Homer
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and… — Joseph Hall
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Thomas B. Macaulay
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend… — T. Harv Eker
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — Michel de Montaigne
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . — Alexander Pope
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are… — Dorothy Hamill
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe

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