(2003 quotes found)
“Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.”
Robert Eliot
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
William Shakespeare
“I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.”
Mark Twain
“Venture a small fish to catch a great one”
English Proverb
“Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all”
“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.”
Og Mandino
“There's small choice in rotten apples”
“Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?”
Matthew Arnold
“Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates”
Lao Tzu
