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Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding. -- Rose George
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. -- Bruce Chatwin
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with. -- Franz Liszt
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -- Franz Kafka
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. -- John Strachan
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. -- Thomas Paine
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? -- James Madison
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. -- J. B. Bury
I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. -- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart! -- Helen Maria Williams
The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving. -- Matthew Henry
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind. -- William Cowper
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows. -- George Eliot
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. -- Samuel Johnson
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional. -- Clifford Allbutt
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know. -- Robert E. Howard

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