“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”
Quentin Crisp
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
Jonathan Swift
“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”
“It's notoriously a very volatile number, but it went to record levels just a scant year ago.”
Ben Hock
“As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair / In leprosy.”
Robert Browning
“The northern border gets scant attention compared to the border with Mexico, but [it] presents a significant threat to our security from illicit drugs and terrorism.”
Charles E. Schumer
