Few Quotes

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

She knew few words and believed in none.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.