All Quotes

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
‐‐ Richard E. Byrd

Few men have been admired of their familiars.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
‐‐ George Washington

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
‐‐ James A. Garfield

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
‐‐ Jennifer Grant

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
‐‐ Isaiah Berlin

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
‐‐ Gilbert Murray

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
‐‐ P. G. Wodehouse

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
‐‐ Daniel Gilbert

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
‐‐ John Gibbon

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
‐‐ Randolph Bourne

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

Few people have the imagination for reality.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
‐‐ Charles Saatchi

Few people know how to be old.
‐‐ Maggie Kuhn

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!
‐‐ Karan Johar

Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.
‐‐ Jonathan Turley

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
‐‐ Hilary Swank

Few people realize that luck is created.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
‐‐ Joan Caulfield

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
‐‐ Anthony Powell

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.
‐‐ Tom Rooney

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
‐‐ Quincy Jones

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
‐‐ Austin Clarke

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
‐‐ Saul David

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini