Seldom Quotes

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

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

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

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

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

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

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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.

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