Rarer Quotes

64 Rarer quotes by 57 unique authors

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then… — A. A. Gill
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as… — Archibald Rutledge
Nothing is rarer than real goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. — Ada Leverson
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a… — Isaac Newton
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is… — Bill Vaughan
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But… — Frederick William Faber
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. — Jean de La Fontaine
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. — Thor Heyerdahl
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the… — Thor Heyerdahl
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. — Elbert Hubbard
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we… — Twyla Tharp
Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still! — Oscar Wilde
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. — William Shakespeare
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She… — E. M. Forster
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a… — Robert Kennedy
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral… — Andre Gide
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. — Christopher Pike
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,… — Charles Darwin
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine… — Fernando Pessoa
...I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent who would… — Julia Quinn

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