Famous quotes containing the word scarce:
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“O time that cut’st down all!
And scarce leav’st here
Memoriall
Of any men that were.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story
How they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide;
And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory
Has been but a burden they scarce might abide.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)