#narrow

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#confined #few #generation #lies #men

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#down #everything #experienced #having #narrow

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #intolerant #learned #most #narrow-minded

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#always #avoided #confined #interests #laws

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#contain #demonstration #greater #i #impossible

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#beyond #contain #cube #cubes #demonstration

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. ↗

— John Cleese

#close #concept #damn #england #god