Rarer Quotes

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

I eat meat, the rarer the better.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.