Few Quotes - page 5

Very few of us are what we seem. (Agatha Christie)

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Hoover

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Jonathan Swift

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jonathan Swift

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. ... You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian.

Joseph Goebbels

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. (Helen Rowland)

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Oliver Cromwell

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Benjamin Tucker

Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Buñuel

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. (Terence Rattigan)

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Hannes Alfvén

A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

Smedley Butler

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Eric Hoffer

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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