The fewer desires, the more peace. [ Thomas Wilson ]
The fewer words, the better prayer. [ Luther ]
The higher the studies the fewer the students.
The foremost horseman rides alone. [ E. W ]
When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]
The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. [ Proverb ]
There are fewer students of man than of geometry. [ Pascal ]
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. [ Cowley ]
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. [ Socrates ]
The fewer the thoughtless words spoken, the less regret.
Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. [ Cardinal Manning ]
If you had had fewer friends and more enemies, you had been a better man. [ Proverb ]
Fewer possess virtue than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [ Cicero ]
Very few people are good economists of their fortune, and still fewer of their time. [ Chesterfield ]
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. [ Voltaire ]
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. [ Fenelon ]
There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. [ Johnson ]
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. [ Swift ]
The realities of life are so repellent that few dare to look them in the face, and still fewer dare to speak of them. [ De Finod ]
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than the common, but those only who have greater designs. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out - a quality few esteem, and fewer aim at. [ Hare ]
With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]
Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]