Fewer Quote by Hugh MacDiarmid

“over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.”

— Nicholas Ostler

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

— Richard P. Feynman

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At this moment there are six billion, five hundred and two million, eight hundred and sixty seven thousand, one hundred and twenty people in…

— Ash Sweeney

It's a lot of people who can perform, but they can't write. And it's a lot of people that can write that can't perform.

— Scarface

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

— Anonymous

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

— Garrett Hardin

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in…

— Vladimir Lenin

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

— John Milton