There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
Wangari Maathai