Twas pastime to be bound; Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Quotes about scanty (13 Quotes)
Earth at the best
Is but a scanty Toy --
Bought, carried Home
To Immortality.
One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.
So when they came in to him, they said O chief distress has afflicted us and our family and we have brought scanty money, so give us full measure and be charitable to us surely Allah rewards the charitable.
He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy and that to the most ignorant, the sweet face of Nature was a never-failing source of cheerfulness and joy. He saw those who had been delicately nurtured, and tenderly brought up, cheerful under privations, and superior to suffering, that would have crushed many of a rougher grain, because they bore within their own bosoms the materials of happiness, contentment, and peace. He saw that women, the tenderest and most fragile of all God's creatures, were the oftenest superior to sorrow, adversity, and distress and he saw that it was because they bore, in their own hearts, an inexhaustible well-spring of affection and devotion. Above all, he saw that men like himself, who snarled at the mirth and cheerfulness of others, were the foulest weeds on the fair surface of the earth and setting all the good of the world against the evil, he came to the conclusion that it was a very decent and respectable sort of world after all.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
Girls of this age are influenced by media, TV, and clothes in the store. The clothes they're wearing are scanty for their age. It's a statement that girls are becoming sexually aware. They're learning that clothing is a statement of appeal, and a way to get boys to look at them.
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.