Quotes of: Little-things Keyword

AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Let misty autumn be our part! The twilight of the year is sweet: Where sh...

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

African

A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.

Chinese

However little you think of the elephant, you can't say it won't fill a pot.

Cameroonian

A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak little.

German

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Italian

Often he who does too much does too little.

Italian

Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.

Malagasy

A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.

Swedish

Who cares about every little feather should not make the bed.

Swiss

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

Traditional

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

The Choice

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

Deadly Little Games

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.

Dirty Little Secret

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Five Little Pigs

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Gourmet Rhapsody

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

The Hakawati

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

Jack White

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Nia Vardalos