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Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life. — Brandon Sanderson

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. — Laozi

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us. — J.C. Ryle

When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice. — Bernard Cornwell

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, — Alexandre Dumas

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all. — Rudyard Kipling

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small. — Blaise Pascal

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable. — Confucius

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable. — Confucius

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be. — Diana Gabaldon

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape. — Doris Lessing

Dave's gently probing finger takes one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. — Cameron Vale

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. — Jean De La Bruyere

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it. — Werner Herzog

Optimism is the content of small men in high places. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fat man, tall man, big dick, small, ain't nobody gonna have it all, he mumbled, snickering to himself. — Ethan Day

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet

A hot man like that was made for more than friendship. — Sara Humphreys

One man always makes a difference. Sometimes it's a small one. Other times, he tips a war. — Brian McClellan

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big aggressive powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik. — George Galloway

Inside many of us
is a small old man
who wants to get out. — Anne Sexton

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it. — John C. Bogle

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult. — James Clavell

When he'd been small, people had said things like, "And what do you want to be, little man?" and he'd said, "I don't know. What have you got? — Terry Pratchett

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Silence is the small man's only defense. — Karan Mahajan

It is not the man of great native talent who wins, but he who pushes his talent however small to its utmost capacity. — Carolyn Coats

There you are," the man said. A small plate and a fork were in his hands. Irritated, the Jinni said, "Yes, here I am, enjoying a moment of solitude. — Helene Wecker

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. — Erika Johansen

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do. — Estelle Parsons

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. — John Ruskin

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind — Neil Armstrong

He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth. — Patricia Lockwood

Predatory. Dangerous. Confident. God, the man was her crack and her kryptonite wrapped up together in one muscular package. — Avery Flynn

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. — Arthur Miller

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. — Confucius

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever. — Mark Helprin

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. — John Kenneth Galbraith

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings! — Maimonides

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons. — Julia Quinn

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The heart of man, though small, is big enough for Christ to live in, if man will only make room for Him. — Billy Graham

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — Arthur Conan Doyle

For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down. — Sathya Sai Baba

The man who is not yet wholly dead to self, is soon tempted, and is overcome in small and trifling matters. — Thomas A Kempis

She didn't need a man. She wanted one. — Robin Bielman

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. — Kenneth L. Pike

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. — Henry David Thoreau

A man often pays dear for a small frugality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man! — Lynda Barry

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics
a small one. — Croft M. Pentz

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain. — Tayeb Salih

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. — George R R Martin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. — Paul Gauguin

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight — Charles Bukowski

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon. — Robin S. Sharma

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. — Confucius

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. — Thiruman Archunan

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side. — Confucius

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams — Noorilhuda

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man — Rajneesh

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. — Patrick Rothfuss

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. — Confucius

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. — G. M. Trevelyan

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — G.K. Chesterton

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. — Confucius

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly. — Henry Spencer

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it. — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. — John Ruskin

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless. — Dean Koontz

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. — Thomas A Kempis

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. — Dwight Yoakam

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. — Friedrich Schiller

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man. — Stephen King

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one: — Nikolai Gogol

I'm sorry. I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places." "Perhaps — Terry Pratchett

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. — Jonathan Swift

Man is an idea, and a precious small
idea, once he turns his back on love. And
that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love. — Albert Camus

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man. — Julius Erving

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars. — Jacob Bronowski

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study! — Charles Dickens

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl — Miranda July

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. — Theodor Reik

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness. — William James