Quotes About Fewest

#1. I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Percy Barnevik

#2. Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Suzy Kassem

#3. How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Donald Barthelme

#4. It explains the great quandary of why the most depressed societies are those with the fewest wants.

Hugh Howey

#5. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Timothy Ferriss

#6. The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

Bill Budge

#7. If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

Paul Graham

#8. Is biology destiny? And the answer is yes, sometimes it is. Women who have the fewest choices of all exercise their right to abortion the most.

Sallie Tisdale

#9. We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

#10. The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Freeman Dyson

#11. The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

Ernst Junger

#12. The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

William Of Ockham

#13. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates

#14. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Walter Scott

#15. Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

#16. You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

Bobby Jones

#17. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Jonathan Swift

#18. The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win ... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

Hugh Douglas

#19. Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

Bobby Knight

#20. The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

#21. Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

#22. I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ...

Daniel Defoe

#23. I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

Robert Baden-Powell

#24. Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Socrates

#25. The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.

Ian K. Smith

#26. Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Josh Billings

#27. Everyone may want to be famous, everyone doesn't want to be patient. Fewest cross the bridge, fewer fall down the ladder and few get tired climbing the stairs. It's not about being famous then, it's winning a meaningless competition

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#28. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Henry Van Dyke

#29. Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

#30. Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Jonathan Swift

#31. Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

John Ruskin

#32. There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

George Henry Lewes

#33. I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Tom Lehrer

#34. There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

Nicole Haislett

#35. When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

#36. It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest.

Helen H. Gardener

#37. The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.

David Platt

#38. The freest among you are often those with the fewest possessions.

Donald J. Amodeo

#39. Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.

Larry McMurtry

#40. I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Astley Cooper

#41. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest - health, integrity, purity (if you like) - is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Albert Camus

#42. Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

William Hazlitt

#43. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

#44. The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#45. Good men have the fewest fears.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#46. Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#47. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.

Susan Ferrier

#49. I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

James Gilmour

#50. That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Publilius Syrus

#51. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift

#52. Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Johan Cruyff

#53. We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.

Herb Kelleher

#54. A true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#55. Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry
with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Gina Berriault

#56. It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Mercedes Lackey

#57. That's what science is about: seeing the exact same things that other people do, finding the units of measurement with which to describe those things, communicating in the fewest and most precise words available. What could be saner - or more sociable - than that?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#58. We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Albert Einstein

#59. Most are on the search for their center their entire life long, for the axis of their world, but only the fewest are aware of it.

Kai Meyer

#60. The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

Urbain Dubois

#61. The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having "things." It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.

Thomas Merton

#62. We have a saying. My people call it 'choosing the path of fewest lashes.'"
"That's terrible," I murmur; half to myself.
"You mistake 'terrible' for 'different,'" he says. "You have a similar say, do you not? 'The lesser of two evils'?

Rae Carson

#63. Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#64. I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Socrates

#65. Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Dickens

#66. Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#67. Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Arthur Bryant

#68. Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

Paul Wolfowitz