Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce… — Charles Caleb Colton
If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their… — Llewellyn Rockwell
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing… — Murray Rothbard
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but… — Benjamin Franklin
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb
Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a… — Alessandro Manzoni
Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing… — Richard Baxter
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them… — Wangari Maathai
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a… — Mark Twain
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and… — Michael Short
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no… — Unknown Author
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth:… — Edmond Halley
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed. — Amy Hempel
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury… — William Bradford
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to… — Henry Hazlitt
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off… — George Reisman
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. — David Brainerd

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