Quotes About Small Doses

#1. The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.

Kristen Heitzmann

#2. I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

#3. Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

Edmund H. North

#4. So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

Regina Spektor

#5. It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do
I had to let something go.

Jane Wagner

#7. The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Timothy Ferriss

#9. Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

Honore De Balzac

#10. We'll do this together. I tell you one thing about me every day, and every day you will tell me one one thing about you. We can learn about each other in small doses. One sad, fucked up, complicated, heartbreaking layer at a time.

Pamela Sparkman

#11. He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed.
Tutto fa brodo.

Saul Bellow

#12. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy

#13. Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

Bryan Way

#14. If it were up to me, all boys would come with a label: Failure to take in small doses may result in irrational behavior, poor judgment, and estrangement from one's friends.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#15. I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

Jonathan Rauch

#16. Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#17. The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Mark Batterson

#18. Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism
like irony
provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.

Michael Perry

#19. True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#20. All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wislawa Szymborska

#21. Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Russell Baker

#22. He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation.

Tim Dorsey

#23. As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Sloane Crosley

#24. It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Mark Twain

#25. She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never come to stay. I loved her dearly, but in small doses.

Jasper Fforde

#26. I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.

Kate O'Mara

#27. A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

Alexandra Ivy

#28. Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Anthony Trollope

#30. Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

Paul Isaacs

#31. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!

Denis Leary

#32. Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

#33. Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Shakira

#34. You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns.

Toby Barlow

#35. Spring massive changes on it and it will run back to its comfortable routines. But introduce changes gently and in small doses and it just might be curious (not scared) to explore them more.

Anonymous

#36. Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses ... unless you prefer to die.

David Levithan

#37. Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Virginia Woolf

#38. I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

Seymour Papert

#39. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

Nikita Khrushchev

#40. I am now scowling."
"You are. And its adorable. But only in small doses."
"Well, we cannot all be ridiculously jolly like you."
"Ah, but we should.

Chelsea Fine

#41. Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

Jack McDevitt

#42. Advice is a dangerous thing," the Watcher responded. "It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.

Jan Siegel

#43. Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

Bernard Sahlins

#44. Here's the thing, everybody loves babies ... but only in very, VERY small doses.

Brian K. Vaughan

#45. Change is ok, I guess. In small, infrequent, and easily chewable doses.

Brandon Williams

#46. Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.

L.M. Montgomery

#47. The prospect of sitting across the table from Caleb Halliday, knowing he thought she was a trollop, was patently unappealing. Besides, one had to take a personality as strong as Caleb's in small, measured doses. Like castor oil.

Linda Lael Miller

#48. He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T

Mary Balogh