Scarcely Quotes

384 quotes by 286 authors

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay… — Watchman Nee
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. — Jesse Stuart
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without… — William Montagu-Pollock
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for… — Thomas Paine
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can… — Alexander Hamilton
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. — St. Jerome
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses… — Lafcadio Hearn
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it… — Andre Gide
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to… — Abraham Lincoln
When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies. — Charles Baudelaire
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble

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