“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.”
“Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham
“Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
William Blake
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
Dorothy Day
