Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
Peter Latham

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Anthony Burgess

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner

Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.
Mike Ditka

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Benoit Mandelbrot

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
Ang Lee

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
Madeleine Stowe

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
Neal Stephenson

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
Shimon Peres

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Lytton Strachey