Top 100 Quotes About Seldom
#1. While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.
Donovan L. Graham
#2. Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
Albert Camus
#3. By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.
Christine De Pizan
#5. Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.
Amy Harmon
#6. For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.
Fay Weldon
#7. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Arthur Gordon Webster
#8. Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
Spike Lee
#10. Human beings
human children especially
seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched
Charlotte Bronte
#11. The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.
H.L. Mencken
#12. In any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#13. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
H.L. Mencken
#15. I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.
Jenny Holzer
#16. When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
Bruce Willis
#17. WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
Barry Long
#18. I grant you true repentance is never too late, but I warn you at the same time, late repentance is seldom true. I grant you, one penitent thief was converted in his last hours, that no man might despair; But I warn you,
J.C. Ryle
#19. Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#20. (M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.
Dennis McFadden
#22. The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.
George R R Martin
#23. A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
Andrew Carnegie
#24. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
James Gleick
#25. How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
Thomas Harris
#26. A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams
#27. It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#28. There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.
Benjamin Disraeli
#29. It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
Bergen Evans
#31. Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Ellen Glasgow
#33. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#34. A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley
#35. A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
Norm MacDonald
#36. People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
Tahereh Mafi
#38. Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
Agnes Repplier
#39. The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
Ed Koch
#40. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...
Hannah More
#41. A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom
Anonymous
#42. Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.
Sally Mann
#43. Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#44. The greater part of our writers, ... have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
Isaac D'Israeli
#45. You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
Alfre Woodard
#46. People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
C.S. Lewis
#47. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
#48. They talked in the way toddlers might throw playthings around the room. There was seldom any catching of an idea and sharing it. When the lunches were over, individual opinions lay scattered about in a delicious jumble only ever one layer deep.
Jonathan Renshaw
#49. Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Edmund White
#50. A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.
Ayn Rand
#53. When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
Sakya Pandita
#54. Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
Giacomo Leopardi
#55. In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive - but so seldom do you give it to others.
Uvi Poznansky
#56. The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
Ogden Nash
#57. It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
James F. Cooper
#58. Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,
Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.
William Shakespeare
#59. People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
Samuel Johnson
#60. The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."
William Cowper
#61. Legends, then, are seldom formed out of thin air. They grow out of something real. That original something may be extremely different from the final legend, but the kernel of truth is there nevertheless.
Catherine M. Andronik
#62. Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
David Horsey
#63. Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
Virginia Woolf
#64. A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler
#66. Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.
Helen Craik
#67. Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is
Sunday Adelaja
#68. Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.
Malcolm Forbes
#69. Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
Edward Gibbon
#71. What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James
#72. The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#73. I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.
Grace Metalious
#74. A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
William Feather
#75. People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after
Oliver Goldsmith
#76. Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
John Dryden
#78. Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
Charles Bukowski
#80. We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
Charles Handy
#81. Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
#82. Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade ...
Edward Gibbon
#83. Seek not the favor of the mulititude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant
Bohdi Sanders
#84. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Thomas Paine
#85. It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
Lord Chesterfield
#87. Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
Niall Ferguson
#88. Men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Fanny Burney
#89. Her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word last.
Jane Austen
#90. People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
#91. The shushing of the waves was the heartbeat of the world, ever present, seldom noticed, and linking every moment together from before there was life to now.
Kim Harrison
#92. Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.
Robin Hobb
#95. Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
Henry Ford
#96. Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey MacKay
#97. The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
John Stuart Mill
#98. They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.
William Shakespeare
#99. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
Arthur C. Clarke
#100. (Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)
Joanna Russ
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