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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. -- Henry Fielding
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. -- Orison Swett Marden
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. -- Gordon W. Allport
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. -- Albert Einstein
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. -- Thomas Carlyle
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. -- William Allingham
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained -- Samuel Johnson
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior -- Desiderius Erasmus
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere. -- Benjamin Jowett
Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. -- Harriet Martineau
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself. -- Benjamin Franklin
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ??s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charmâ??d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. -- Jean Paul
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. -- Abraham Lincoln
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. -- John Keats
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. -- George Washington
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. -- Virginia Woolf
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. -- Charles Dickens
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. -- Virginia Woolf
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. -- Elbert Hubbard
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. -- Derek Bok
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. -- Robert Musil
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. -- Theodore Dreiser
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. -- Edgar Allan Poe
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -- George Washington
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. -- Gene Cernan
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. -- Joshua Chamberlain
I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. -- Laura Linney
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. -- Charles Dickens
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. -- David Ricardo
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. -- Norbert Wiener
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede
After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. -- Naomi Wolf
I'm scarcely an enfant! -- Truman Capote
Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented... -- Kelley Armstrong
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. -- Albert Camus
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. -- Mason Cooley
True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility. -- Saint Francis de Sales
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. -- William Hazlitt
Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. -- Regina Maria Roche
We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment. -- Honore de Balzac
Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. -- Richard Wilbur
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. -- Benjamin Franklin
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. -- P. T. Barnum
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. -- Alastair Reynolds
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. -- Antonio Porchia
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. -- Charlotte Bronte
While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. -- James Montgomery
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. -- Lydia M. Child
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. -- Sophie Swetchine
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. -- Josh Billings
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. -- Hannah More
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. -- Brennan Manning
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. -- William Benton Clulow
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself -- James Joyce
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. -- David Antin
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. -- Hosea Ballou
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. -- Boethius
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. -- Virginia Woolf
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. -- Joe Abercrombie
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? -- Arsenius the Great
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. -- Jane Austen
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. -- William Shakespeare
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. -- Voltaire
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable. -- John Maynard Keynes
Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. -- L. Adams Beck
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions. -- Samuel Florman
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. -- Charles Spurgeon
When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. -- Kenneth Fisher
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. -- Edward Gibbon
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. -- Mark Twain
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. -- Ovid
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. -- John Calvin
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. -- Hilaire Belloc
the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it! -- Rhonda Byrne
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. -- Baltasar Gracian
My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. -- Julia Ward Howe
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. -- Peter Matthiessen
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. -- John Bunyan
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. -- Charles Darwin
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. -- Isaac Barrow
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. -- Denis Diderot
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. -- Leo Tolstoy
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. -- Ovid
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. -- St. Jerome
When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong. -- Victoria Alexander
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. -- John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. -- Mason Cooley
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. -- Florence Nightingale
Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. -- Victor Hugo
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it -- Andrew Carnegie
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. -- Lord Chesterfield
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. -- Giovanni Boccaccio
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend. -- Billy Graham
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. -- Joseph Hall
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. -- Baltasar Gracian
When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies. -- Charles Baudelaire
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. -- Victor Hugo
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. -- George Washington
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. -- Beverley Nichols
A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here. -- Emily Dickinson

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