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.
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Scarce Quotations
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
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
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
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne
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
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
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard
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
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