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Difficulties: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.— LORD BROUGHAM — Title given to a Book.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Rasselas. Ch. XIII.

So he with difficulty and labor hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labor he.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 1021.

It is as hard to come as for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 16.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine.— JAMES WOLFE — Dispatch to Pitt.

Sept. 2, 1759.

Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit. The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 3. 103.

Nulla est tam facilis res, quin difficilis siet, Quum invitus facias. There is nothing so easy in itself but grows difficult when it is performed against one's will.— TERENCE — Heauton-Timoroumenos.

Die grössten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo wir sie nicht suchen. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.— GOETHE — Sprüche in Prosa. P. 236.