Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Votes: 4
Henry FieldingScarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. Votes: 3
William AllinghamSorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Votes: 2
Jean PaulNever stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Votes: 2
Abraham LincolnI am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. Votes: 2
John KeatsWhile rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. Votes: 1
James MontgomeryComposition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. Votes: 0
Richard WilburWithout risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. Votes: 0
Alastair ReynoldsHappiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteChildhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Votes: 0
Lydia M. ChildTrue poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineAdmiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsWhat I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. Votes: 0
David AntinDignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. Votes: 0
Christina, Queen of SwedenThere is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldProsperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouBrethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? Votes: 0
Arsenius the GreatStrange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Votes: 0
Joe AbercrombieThe attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartineWe should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThere is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Votes: 0
VoltaireMuch is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. Votes: 0
L. Adams BeckThe olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonSatire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Votes: 0
Mary Wortley MontaguHis ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzschePedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. Votes: 0
OvidWhile all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. Votes: 0
John CalvinLife is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Votes: 0
Hilaire BellocMy children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. Votes: 0
Julia Ward Howethe force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it! Votes: 0
Rhonda ByrneNature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianIt is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinOut of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. Votes: 0
St. JeromeHe who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. Votes: 0
John BunyanBirth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Votes: 0
OvidWoman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyThere is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. Votes: 0
John Coleridge, 1st Baron ColeridgeWhen a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong. Votes: 0
Victoria AlexanderIt is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. Votes: 0
Isaac BarrowIf we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. Votes: 0
Peter MatthiessenThere is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieNot only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. Votes: 0
Georgie Anne GeyerThe past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyIt is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianA light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonIf you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. Votes: 0
Joanna LumleyI did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. Votes: 0
Georg Brandes