Seldom Quotes

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.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.

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.

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

I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.

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.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.