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You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men.
Sep 10, 2025
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.
I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.
Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.
That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.