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“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much”. –Shams Tabrizi

“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks”. –Malcolm X

“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error”. –Albrecht Dürer

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them”. –Washington Irving

“It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat”. –Fiorello LaGuardia

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee; And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me”. –Robert Frost

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody”. –Virginia Woolf

“Any kind of organization for the goodwill of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously”. –Salvador Dali

“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses”. –Lenny Bruce

“Any ballplayer that don’t sign autographs for little kids ain’t an American, he’s a communist”. –Rogers Hornsby

“Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little”. –Adam Smith