Scarce Quotes
187 quotes by 156 authors
-
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
— Michelle Bachelet
-
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:…
— Francis Bacon
-
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings
-
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some…
— William Blake
-
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
— Jimmy Buffett
-
Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.
— Nick Carter
-
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men…
— Oswald Chambers
-
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with…
— Lawrence Hargrave
-
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.
— Lamar S. Smith
-
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of…
— Sun Tzu
-
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
-
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
-
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
-
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready…
— Charles Lamb
-
I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed.…
— Yoko Ono
-
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do…
— William Shakespeare
-
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
-
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by…
— Robert Hooke
-
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Scarce Quotes
156 authors contributed a total of 187 Scarce Quotes, led by these top contributors: