Dine Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

— Abraham Lincoln

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

“Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

“She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

— Antonio Porchia

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”

— Terrance Dicks