Small Quotes

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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in. — Henrietta Mears
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of… — Igor Stravinsky
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. — W. Somerset Maugham
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. — Baron de Montesquieu
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. — George Carlin
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. — Colley Cibber
He's so small, he's a waste of skin. — Fred Allen
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. — Brian Tracy
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by… — Thomas Jefferson
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged,… — George W. Bush
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,… — Martin Luther
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. — John Lyly
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what… — Jacques Barzun

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