Seldom Quotes

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

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.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

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.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

The cautious seldom err.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.