Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

The Swiss—also a federation of semi-independent states—are even more attached to their guns than Texans, and they have a greater number per capita, but death by shooting is so rare they don’t even collate the figures

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

It is rarer to hear no answer from them.

You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It’s very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.