If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
He who wants to be a dragon must eat many little snakes.
Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.
Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year.
Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears.
The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed.
One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors.
He who begins too much accomplishes little.
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire.
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die.
If the Devil were dead, folk would do little for God's sake.
A woman's advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.
To give too much when little is asked is a form of refusal.
No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong.
He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.
What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.
There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.
A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk hea...
He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it...
