Definition of Scarce

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Scarce

Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.

Alt. of Scarcely

Related Definitions:

Abundant, Alt, Be, Deficient, Demand, Easily, Frugal, In, Not, Of, Or, Parsimonious, Plentiful, Procured, Proportion, Quantity, Rare, Scantily, Scarcely, Small, Sparing, Stingy, Supplied, The, To, Uncommon, With

Scarce Quotations

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Mark Twain

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

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

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

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

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings

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

Scarce Translations

scarce in French is rare, rare
scarce in German is knapp, selten, knapp
scarce in Italian is raro, scarso, raro
scarce in Spanish is cenido

Quotes