Few Quotes

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. View quote
Aeschylus
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. View quote
Ronald Reagan
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. View quote
Plutarch
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. View quote
Karl Kraus
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. (Antonio Porchia)
Many are called but few get up. View quote
Oliver Herford
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. View quote
Edward Abbey
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. View quote
Oscar Levant
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Alexander Pope
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. View quote
Abigail Adams
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. View quote
George Washington
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. View quote
George Washington
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. (Robert F. Kennedy)
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. View quote
George Orwell
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
Jonathan Swift
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. View quote
Stendhal