I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Pythagoras

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
Willie Aames

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Dee Hock

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
Donatella Versace

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop