“Ye can not sée the wood for trées.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
You cannot see the wood for trees.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
“The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée
Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)”
The more the merrier, we all day hear and see
You, but the fewer the better fare, said he.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
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John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Mark you, how she hits me on the thumbs, said he.
And you taunt me tit over thumb, said she.
Since tit for tat, said I, on even hand is set.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
“The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Politics
Context: The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
“As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy
Variant: Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
Source: Inkheart
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424, (1907, 12 February)
Early career years (1898–1929)
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are."”
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
On Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on stepping on the surface of the moon, "That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The Sunday Times [London] (21 July 1974)