Rarest Quotes

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

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

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.