Seldom Seen Quotes

#1. I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Joseph Hall

#2. By being seldom seen, I could not stir,
But, like a comet, I was wondered at ...
He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded
seen, but with such eyes,
As, sick and blunted with community,
Afford no extraordinary gaze.

William Shakespeare

#3. Lightness can be found after the dark; appreciated when seldom seen.

Gisele T. Siegmund

#4. Again, folks, you've been witness to one of the most seldom seen events in history ... I'm Chicken Larson saying good night, sleep tight and don't let the boogie man or a suicide blonde getchya.

Jenn Cooksey

#5. Words are fools
Who follow blindly, once they get a lead.
But thoughts are kingfishers that haunt the pools
Of quiet; seldom-seen...

Siegried Sassoon

#6. The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

James F. Cooper

#7. This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

Peg Bracken

#8. When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

Linus Torvalds

#9. Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word "redoubtable" in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.

JoAnn Spears

#12. Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

Elizabeth Cox

#13. I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

Johnny Bench

#14. There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.

Alberto Villoldo

#15. The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

Jack Buck

#16. The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

John Hanning Speke

#17. As I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken

Benjamin Franklin

#18. Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Luke Rhinehart

#19. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye.

Katarina Anhava

#21. 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

#22. I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

Grace Metalious

#23. 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

#24. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.

Charles Dickens

#25. A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

#26. What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Mustafa Akyol

#27. There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

Kay Hooper

#28. Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

Thomas Watson

#29. The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Norm MacDonald

#30. It doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom
seen
or that we are too senseless to go
insane.
coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
coffee.

Charles Bukowski

#31. When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#32. My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

#33. 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