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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting. – Dale Carnegie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that. – Groucho Marx	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We never regret having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. – Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past! – Lewis Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Anderson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed? – Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. – David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is better to think too much, than to think too little – Eric Kopras, myself (i thought it up)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful. – Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains. – Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." – Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children – William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom. – Jerry Seinfeld	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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