Smallest Quotes
618 Smallest quotes by 476 unique authors
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Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot…
— Suzy Kassem
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The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
— John Milton
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Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop…
— Joseph Parker
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.
— Loren C. Dunn
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
— Walter Savage Landor
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
— George Orwell
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us…
— Dante Alighieri
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. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great…
— Vincent de Paul
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
— Plutarch
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This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,…
— Robert Grosseteste
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The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
— Steven Pinker
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He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me…
— Gene Hill
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
— Joseph Addison
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You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
— Ann Voskamp
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the…
— Nick Cave
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's…
— Florence Nightingale
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There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the…
— Michelangelo
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Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
— Learned Hand
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I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.
— Marcel Breuer
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the…
— William Rounseville Alger
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Who Wrote These Smallest Quotes
476 authors contributed a total of 618 Smallest Quotes, led by these top contributors: