Meagre Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey… — Louis Agassiz
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American… — Immanuel Kant
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor… — Ulysses S. Grant
Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost… — John Milton
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided… — Michel Houellebecq
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow… — Edmund Burke
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,… — Charles Dickens
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. — A. A. Gill
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name,… — Bill Vaughan
My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your… — Hugh Jackman
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion… — Viktor Korchnoi
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when… — Lord Kelvin
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only… — Ahmed Ben Bella

Who Wrote These Meagre Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Meagre Quotes as follows: