Seldom Quotes

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Strange things have happened, but seldom does it happen.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.