Hard or Hardness may refer to:
- Hardness, resistance of physical materials to change under force
- Hard water, water with a high mineral content
- NP-hard, a term used in Computational complexity theory
- Hard, Austria, a town in Austria
- Hard (Zurich), a quarter in Zürich
- Hard (tennis), a type of tennis court
- Hard (music festival), concerts and live events
- Hard, or hard-on, a slang term for an erection
- Hard (nautical), a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water
- Hard (surname)
- Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, abbreviated H.A.R.D.
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Famous quotes containing the word hard:
“It was a comfort in those succeeding days to sit up and contemplate the majestic panorama of mountains and valleys spread out below us and eat ham and hard boiled eggs while our spiritual natures reveled alternately in rainbows, thunderstorms, and peerless sunsets. Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amount of hard work is too severe for it.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)