Top 655 Scarcely Quotes & Sayings

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

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

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

I'm scarcely an enfant!

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

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.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.