Seldom Meet Quotes

#1. Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#2. The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do, their victims lie strewn around.

Elizabeth Bowen

#3. Good and quickly seldom meet.

George Herbert

#4. Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

Joshua Krook

#6. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

#7. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

#8. Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.

Park Dietz

#9. 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

#10. That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

King James I

#11. Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
to despise. Nor to despise the other.
Not to despise the it. To make this relation
with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

#12. 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

#13. People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

C.S. Lewis

#14. For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

Fanny Burney

#15. The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed.

Robert Stephens

#16. If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

John Stott

#17. If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.

Seamus McDuff

#18. I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.

Mike Tyson

#19. Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

Carl Honore

#20. Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.

John Philip Sousa

#21. A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

Helen Rowland

#22. If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Simon Bird