Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. — Mark Twain
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. — Sam Walton
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them… — Zig Ziglar
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join… — Mark Twain
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… — Herman Melville
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. — Mark Twain
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned… — Emily Dickinson
Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But… — Lloyd Alexander
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi) — Albert Einstein
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be… — Jacqueline Carey
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at… — Benjamin Franklin
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"â€” here I opened wide the door;… — Edgar Allan Poe

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