“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
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“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
“You know how it was for me earlier in the season [when starts were scarce]. I don't care where I hit, as long as I'm in there.”
Rich Aurilia
“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 everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar
“Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham
“Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it”
Christina of Sweden