#hardly

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#body #bound #cripple #full #hardly

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should. ↗

— Clive Owen

#cabinet #guess #hardly #honestly #i

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #hardly #make #other #possible

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #art #comics #critical #entirely

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#belly #does #else #hardly #his

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#ever #get #great #hardly #kid

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. ↗

— St. Jerome

#found #friend #hardly #kept #long