Top 1200 Little Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

The crucifixion saved him [Jesus]. He never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of God wasn't ever going to come. His disciples, of course, had to deal with it, and little by little they had to realize that it's a metaphorical thing. Well, that's not what Jesus meant. I'm fairly sure he meant it literally. But he must have been the most fascinating man.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

I think college prepared me at a really high level. High school, you can take some plays off on the defensive end. Not on purpose, but if your man gets tired, you can rest a little bit. But once you get to college, and especially in the NBA, you can't do that. Even if my man gives the ball up, I'm on help side, helping my team out.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

I see you young and soft oh little baby Little feet, little hands, little baby One year of crying and the words creep up inside Creep into your mind So much to say