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An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. — Hanna Rosin

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. — Empedocles

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

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

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. — P.G. Wodehouse

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said. — David A. Siegel

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

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show. — William Shakespeare

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small. — Fulton J. Sheen

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition. — Drake

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

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. — Confucius

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. — Francis Bacon

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

Love makes men big, and hate makes them small. — Gregory David Roberts

The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel. — Frances E. Willard

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

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. — John Lyly

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is — Laini Taylor

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7 — Peter Marshall

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

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. — Robert Silverberg

One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace

protect us from small-minded men with too much power. — Brandon Sanderson

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game. — Nellie Fox

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys? — Randall Terry

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

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all. — Theocritus

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

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls — David Pleat

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God. — J.C. Marino

..culture is not monolithic either and is not the exclusive property of the East or West nor of the small groups of men and women. — Edward Said

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal. — Dov Davidoff

Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ... — Anne Sexton

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. — Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame
living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. — Andrew Comiskey

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men. — Victor Hugo

Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men. — William L. Shirer

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men are sometimes so even in small things. — Luc De Clapiers

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ. — Martin Luther

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God. — George Gillespie

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight — Renee Ahdieh

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls. — Spencer W. Kimball

Small men will always hurt things that are weaker than them. — A.C. Gaughen

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

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. — Strom Thurmond

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

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

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy ... with polio. — Woody Allen

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

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

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls. — Spencer W. Kimball

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

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

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

Small men curse what they cannot understand. — George R R Martin

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. — Yoko Ono

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

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

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

You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men. — William J.H. Boetcker

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

But life in the fast lane took a toll on men who cared and it was eating Jonas one small piece at a time. — Christine Feehan

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

A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler. — Theodore Roosevelt

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. — Algernon Sidney

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

Why is it," Marasi said angrily, "that small-minded men must destroy that which they know is better, and greater, than they? — Brandon Sanderson

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. — E. M. Forster

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain — E. E. Cummings

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

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Small things make base men proud. — William Shakespeare

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen

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

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

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. — Lin Yutang

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