While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned. . . The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
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 him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.
We have had scarce investment in women. . . One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
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 they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.
Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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 his assistance. . . . He is indeed a man born for the good of mankind, and for the honour of his country. . . . So I may thank God, that Dr. Wilkins was an Englishman, for wherever he had lived, there had been the chief seat of generous knowledge and true philosophy.
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.
