A Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Polish - Poet
July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Russell Baker

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

Charlie Hunnam

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Tim Ferriss

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

Honore de Balzac

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’

Sloane Crosley

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Sloane Crosley

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

Bernard Sahlins

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

Edmund H. North

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Virginia Woolf

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

David Levithan

We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It's like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It's cancerous and does affect society.

Victor Banerjee

Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.