Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned small speech cantankerous.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism those petty good feelings pity and remorse?

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty it fights dirty.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits and that is by nature a woman's quality.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport the arts charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health social security defence pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports the arts the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Hunger revenge to sleep are petty foes But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.