Littles Quotes - Page 232

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

You're the best in the world, so you deserve those little perks along the way if you can get them.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

I grew up on a tiny little island.