Hardly Quotes
1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors
-
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
— George Santayana
-
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
— Henry Adams
-
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of…
— Agnes Repplier
-
They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
— Hunter S. Thompson
-
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
— Albert Einstein
-
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
— J. B. Priestley
-
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
-
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
-
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct…
— John von Neumann
-
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of…
— Carl Sagan
-
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
-
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It…
— Mark Helprin
-
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that…
— Phillip E. Johnson
-
You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and…
— Russell M. Nelson
-
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he…
— Hermione Gingold
-
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like…
— Albert Einstein
-
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
— Joseph Sobran
-
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who Wrote These Hardly Quotes
1,098 authors contributed a total of 1,520 Hardly Quotes, led by these top contributors: