Few Quotes - page 2

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. (William Hazlitt)
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. View quote
Sylvia Plath
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. View quote
Norman Mailer
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. View quote
Norman Mailer
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. View quote
William Morris
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. View quote
Arthur Balfour
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes." View quote
Steven Wright
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. View quote
Noël Coward
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few. (Benjamin Franklin)
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. View quote
Walter Bagehot
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. View quote
Edgard Varèse
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. (William Shakespeare)
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. View quote
George Berkeley
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. View quote
Henry Ford
People who have no vices, have very few virtues. View quote
Abraham Lincoln