Least Quotes

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Ovid)
We must as second best ... take the least of the evils. View quote
Aristotle
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. View quote
Plutarch
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. View quote
Socrates
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
A child needs your love most when he deserves it least. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. (Hippocrates)
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. View quote
Al Franken
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe. View quote
Whitney Houston
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. View quote
Max Born
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. View quote
Winston Churchill
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. View quote
Frank Zappa
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. View quote
John Dewey
The one who loves least controls the relationship. View quote
Robert Anthony
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. View quote
Francis Bacon
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
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