Top 1200 Little Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but — whack — his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

There's another little vision in my life, going into a restaurant in New York years ago: All the women are sitting in their little strapless dresses with their cleavage, and there's this one woman in a sleeveless turtleneck and pants. And I can tell you that every man in that restaurant looked at that woman's arms. It was hypnotizing when everything was covered up. Just the face, the conversation - and you see the arms. And the arms and the hands become an obsession. I like that.

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.

Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that indeed I am a man.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

I have a nap every afternoon like a little boy. Or an old man. Depending on how you look at it.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

In truth I care little about any party's politics?the man behind it is the important thing.