Seldom Quotes

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.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

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.

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.

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

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