(42 quotes found)
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“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
“They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.”
“Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it”
Christina of Sweden
“Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham
“There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.”
Lord Chesterfield
“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
“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
