Famous quotes containing the word scarce:
“Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There’s scarce a bush.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold
A sheephook, or have learn’d ought else the least
That to the faithful herdman’s art belongs!
What recks it them? What need they? They are sped.
And when they list their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw,
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)