Top 100 Too Little Quotes
#1. It's a hard time to be human. We know too much
and too little.
Ellen Bass
#2. 71 Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal
#3. For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
George McGovern
#4. N equally basic passion of mine ab initio was for myth (not allegory!) and for fairy-story, and above all for heroic legend on the brink of fairy-tale and history, of which there is far too little in the world (accessible to me) for my appetite ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Baltasar Gracian
#6. You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.
C.S. Lewis
#7. as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.
Os Guinness
#8. Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.
John Paul Caponigro
#9. It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
Samuel Butler
#10. I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
Bob Woodward
#11. Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Antonio Porchia
#12. I'm just curious... how much did Jake offer to pay you to sleep with me?"...
"Too little, in my opinion," Logan said. "You're worth way more.
Kristin Miller
#13. Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.
Malcolm Gladwell
#14. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
Theodore Newton Vail
#15. I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
Gene Tierney
#16. In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.
Robert J. Samuelson
#17. I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
Matteo Manassero
#18. If too much has been made of the symptoms of Plath's mental illness, so too little attention has been paid to its possible causes. Sylvia Plath was an angry young woman born in a country and at a time that only exacerbated and intensified her fury.
Andrew Wilson
#19. Talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#20. Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.
Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"
is a simpleton.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
Steve Maraboli
#22. But the overwhelming number of mothers who think they have too little milk have babies who are taking plenty of milk and are gaining weight well. These mothers have based their conclusions on misinformation or a misinterpretation of their babies' behavior.
Kathleen Huggins
#23. There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
E.F. Schumacher
#24. To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#25. Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
George R R Martin
#26. 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
#27. Murder is a high-pressure squad and a small one, only twenty permanent members and under any added strain (anyone leaving, anyone new, too much work, too little work), it tends to develop a tinge of cabin-fevery hysteria, full of complicated alliances and frantic rumors.
Tana French
#28. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*
Daniel H. Pink
#29. Apply just the right amount of force - never too much, never too little.
Kano Jigoro
#30. Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.
J. Oswald Sanders
#31. As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
Gloria Steinem
#33. If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
George Horace Lorimer
#35. I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams
Paul C. Nagel
#36. If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
Rob Hopkins
#37. Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
Peter Barris
#39. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca.
#40. Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.
Plutarch
#41. I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.
Susan Isaacs
#42. The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.
Don Henley
#43. Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'
Cynthia P. Schneider
#44. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
#46. Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
Djuna Barnes
#47. In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.
Joshua Krook
#48. We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North
#49. Kissing a woman's hand is never the right thing to do; it is either too much or too little.
Melchior Lengyel
#50. To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
Lord David Cecil
#52. Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said.
"Then at least you'll never be disappointed.
James Sallis
#53. They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.
Norman Finkelstein
#54. There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner
#55. Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
Aaron Levie
#56. With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
Alphonsus Liguori
#57. I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
James Crumley
#58. The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Mason Cooley
#59. Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
#60. That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.
Samuel Beckett
#61. Yeah. You were too little I guess. Hondo was a good horse. Grandpa loved him as much as you love Sackett.
Amy Harmon
#62. I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
Michael Mandelbaum
#64. Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ...
Fanny Fern
#65. I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
David McCullough
#66. Rothfuss thought about his eccentric friend who wanted nothing of life but to look on, and ... could not have said if this was asking too much or too little.
Hermann Hesse
#67. There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.
Bernie Sanders
#68. As far as he was concerned , Henry's sudden interest was a case of too little too late
Rachel Gibson
#69. There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
Pope John Paul II
#70. Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.
Jon Meacham
#71. If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.
Morris L. West
#72. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
Augustine Of Hippo
#73. We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
William Shakespeare
#74. There. But then I change my mind. I think of us poor, old human beings doing the best we can, struggling with being either too much of who we are or too little.
Deb Caletti
#75. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
George Canning
#76. A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
Woodrow Wilson
#77. Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
Blaise Pascal
#78. Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.
Michael Dirda
#79. Do not hope for too much. But do not settle for too little.
Howard Jacobson
#81. A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
Naveen Andrews
#83. I was too little to think a miracle could be anything but good.
Brenna Yovanoff
#84. Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
Joshua Reynolds
#86. It's testosterone," Sandra explained. "Too much, the guy's an ape. Too little, he's an ant.
Haydn Wilks
#87. You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.
Thomas Angelo
#88. One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.
Jane Austen
#89. He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
Don DeLillo
#90. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.
Benjamin Barber
#91. The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
Alexander MacLaren
#92. Leaders who think that growth in grace comes by knowing the Word of God without doing it will produce congregations of passive Christians which resemble human beings that eat too much and exercise too little.
Alexander Strauch
#93. Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763.
Samuel Johnson
#95. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.
Jonathan Douglas Duran
#96. We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#97. People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
Os Guinness
#98. To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
#99. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Amelia Barr
#100. Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
Plautus
