Top 100 Quotes About Seldom
#2. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies?
James A. Durham
#4. I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.
Rose Macaulay
#6. A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens
#8. God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Adam Hamilton
#9. Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
Dieter Rams
#10. Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
John Marsden
#11. Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
Anonymous
#12. A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good
a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#13. We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.
Bruce Davison
#14. Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.
Raoul Vaneigem
#15. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.
Maxim Gorky
#16. He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
Samuel Johnson
#17. By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
Thomas Hardy
#18. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
Charlotte Rae
#21. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
John H. Alexander
#23. As things turned out her choice had been happy, for seldom had two people loved more than they did; they loved with an ardour undiminished by time; as they ripened, so their love ripened with them.
Radclyffe Hall
#24. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
#25. It is seldom at the frontier that discoveries are made but more often in the dustbin.
Alan Bennett
#26. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
#27. We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
#28. Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
Jean Cocteau
#29. That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
Gautama Buddha
#30. The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.
Edward Gibbon
#31. There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.
Garth Greenwell
#32. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#33. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.
Colin Watson
#34. Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon
#35. If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
Brian Tracy
#36. The world was a soup and thought was generally a fork: it seldom resulted in a good meal.
Harry Mulisch
#37. When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
Gerald W. Haslam
#39. If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.
David Brooks
#40. We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Ethel Barrett
#41. Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
Vladimir Nabokov
#42. Most people in relationships seldom know what they really want, ask for what they really want, or show what they really feel. Most people avoid or fear intimacy, consistent
David Richo
#43. The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself. Money which comes to him without effort on his part is seldom a benefit and often a curse.
John D. Rockefeller
#44. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
George Carlin
#46. Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
William Hazlitt
#47. Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
Juvenal
#48. True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
Francine Rivers
#49. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
#50. He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi
#51. Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.
Edward Brooke
#52. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
Alexis De Tocqueville
#53. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
John Wooden
#54. It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women.
Otto De Joux
#55. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
#56. Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire
#57. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
#58. The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
#59. I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip.
Gad Saad
#60. Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
Edward Abbey
#61. Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places
Gyan Nagpal
#62. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Benjamin Rush
#63. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn
#64. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
#65. We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it's just cheap.
Jim Connolly
#67. Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And
I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often
not. Life is a dream surely.
Virginia Woolf
#68. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
#69. What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Harry Graf Kessler
#70. Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
John Green
#71. Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.
Nathaniel Branden
#72. When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. Forster
#74. Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson
#75. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
John Locke
#76. When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
#77. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James Francis
#79. It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr
#80. All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
Todd Solondz
#81. The highest men are calm, silent and unknown ... The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.
Tom Robbins
#82. Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott
#83. Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
Samuel Johnson
#84. Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
Charles Sturt
#85. My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#86. Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
Jimmy Carter
#87. Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John Turner
#88. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
Horace
#89. The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#91. What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#93. Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts ... in negative space.
Marilyn Manson
#94. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.
Henry Petroski
#95. A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.
Robin Hobb
#96. Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result ...
Adolf Hitler
#97. Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
Matthew Pearl
#99. When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.
Simon Pegg
#100. You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.
Zig Ziglar
