"A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one."
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
"[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended."
"I had very little confidence in myself as an actress."
"You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right."
"We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death."
"A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough."
"Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck."
"I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room."
"Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
"Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small."
"If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right."
"Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less."
"Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird."
"When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?"
"Life is too short not to do a little practical joking."
"A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented."
"Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though Im older than them, we did cross over a little bit."
"It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again."