Pride is scarce ever cured. [ Proverb ]
So sweet the blush of bashfulness
Even pity scarce can wish it less. [ Byron ]
You were born when wit was scarce. [ Proverb ]
Alas! that dreams are only dreams!
That fancy cannot give
A lasting beauty to those forms.
Which scarce a moment live! [ Rufus Dawes ]
Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star
In God's eternal day. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Maids make much of one; good men are scarce. [ Proverb ]
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust. [ Byron ]
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
They are scarce of horses when two ride on a dog. [ Proverb ]
Your mamma's milk is scarce out of your nose yet. [ Proverb ]
Look in the glass when you with anger glow,
And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. [ Ovid ]
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. [ Shakespeare ]
A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. [ William Shakespeare ]
Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish. [ Proverb ]
Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act II. Sc.1 ]
They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare ]
Now cold despair To livid paleness turns the glowing red;
His blood, scarce liquid, creeps within his veins,
Like water which the freezing wind constrains. [ Dryden ]
He was scarce of news who told that his father was hanged. [ Proverb ]
So lonely it was that God himself scarce seemed there to be. [ Coleridge ]
Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes. [ Proverb ]
Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance. [ Locke ]
He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried. [ Proverb ]
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. [ Shairp ]
It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. [ Hannah More ]
Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions, a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. [ Lavater ]
There is scarce any man who cannot persuade himself of his own merit. Has he commonsense, he prefers it to genius; has he some diminutive virtues, he prefers them to great talents. [ Sewall ]
He that will have no books but those that are scarce evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he would do in friendship who would have no friends but those whom all the rest of the world have sent to Coventry. [ Colton ]
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]
The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]