(493 quotes found)
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Baruch Spinoza
“All noble things are as difficult as they are rare”
“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing”
James Harvey Robinson
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform”
William Penn
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.”
Lord of The Rings
“I am rarely there when things get broken, but I am always there when they get fixed.”
Gerard Patrick Roeling
“Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.”
Roger Maris
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
Frederick Douglas
