The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
John H. Speke

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
Bruce Jackson

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
Kenneth Grahame

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.
Adrian Belew

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
Gene Siskel

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman