Source: Fall of Giants
“Little things affect little minds.”
“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.”
Source:(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 154).
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.
“The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage.”
"On Elementary Instruction in Physiology" (1877) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/ElPhys.html
1870s
Context: The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”
Though sometimes credited to Ziglar on the internet, this is credited to Marie Fraser in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory
Misattributed
“These little things are great to little man.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 42.
As quoted in Debussy : Musician of France (1957) by Victor Illyitch Seroff, p. 172
