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Most Famous Small Quotes of All Time!

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My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

Quotes by John McGraw

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Quotes by John Locke

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

Quotes by John Leo

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

Quotes by John L. Phillips

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

Quotes by John Kennedy

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Quotes by John Kennedy

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

Quotes by John Isner

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Quotes by John Heisman

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

Quotes by John Hanning Speke

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Quotes by John Galliano

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Quotes by John Dos Passos

Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.

Quotes by John Delaney

Our employment future rests on the shoulders of the small employer, and we should be investing with them.

Quotes by John Delaney

We started CapitalSource because large banks were ignoring small to mid-sized businesses, and we saw a big business opportunity as a result.

Quotes by John Delaney

My big break down here was working with Steven Spielberg in '1941.' It was a very small role, as Corporal Foley, who was part of the tank crew with Dan Aykroyd.

Quotes by John Candy

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

Quotes by John Bright

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

Quotes by John Bright

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes only talk about small in terms of size?
Not at all — "small" here ranges from company size to towns to personal ambition. One speaker even once thought a company was "a small company ripping off our copyrights," before it turned out to be a much bigger deal than expected. For more on how scale plays out in the working world, see Business quotes.
What do these quotes say about small towns?
One is blunt about it: "Small towns are the worst for getting recognised." It's a candid take on how a smaller community can limit visibility or opportunity, at least in this speaker's experience.
Is being small always seen negatively in these quotes?
No — one turns it into something aspirational: "I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles." Here, "small" describes an exclusive, admirable group rather than a limitation. If you'd rather explore the opposite end of scale, Big quotes covers bigger ambitions too.
How does this collection compare small and great?
One quote draws a direct contrast: "Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." It suggests smallness here is linked to pettiness, while greatness is linked to generosity of spirit. Explore that idea further in Great quotes.
Is there a common thread tying these small quotes together?
Mostly that "small" is relative here — it can mean underestimated, limiting, exclusive, or even petty depending on context, and these four quotes touch on nearly every version of that. For more everyday words examined from every angle, check out Always quotes.

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