(160 quotes found)
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
Dan Quayle
“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias”
William Allen White
“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them”
Camillo di Cavour
“Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.”
Saint Augustine
“An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.”
Chinese Proverbs
“As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.”
Dalai Lama
“F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.”
Nicholas Sparks
“As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.”
Edward Forbes
“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.”
David Hoffman
“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein