It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. Mencken

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
Eminem

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
Jeff Foxworthy

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
Jeff Foxworthy

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
Adam Sandler

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
Adam Sandler

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis Presley

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley