Little do men perceive what solitude is, by Francis Bacon

Little do men perceive what solitude is,
by Francis Bacon

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll

Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain

Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis

All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear

Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino

It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa

Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

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