Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Littles Quotations

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

The little man is still a man.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.