Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Votes: 2
Benjamin DisraeliWithout change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Votes: 2
Frank HerbertBut Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. Votes: 2
John James AudubonTrue friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Votes: 2
Charles Caleb ColtonPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Votes: 2
Soren KierkegaardI seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Votes: 2
Douglas AdamsLike mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten Votes: 0
George Bramwell, 1st Baron BramwellFashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Votes: 0
Henry Theodore TuckermanSermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. Votes: 0
Salvador de MadariagaTrue art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Votes: 0
Thomas Bailey AldrichSomemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawDesultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleVociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterWhat we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliThe man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWomen seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeAnger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 0
George Savile, 1st Marquess of HalifaxOh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWe do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldReputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonDifficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellSuccess is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure Votes: 0
William FeatherThe charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. Votes: 0
Ethel SmythLove is seldomâalmost neverâan even proposition. Someone always loves more. Votes: 0
Emily GiffinChildren will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonWe seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithLawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonContent and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithPeople who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiThe alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. Votes: 0
Ian TattersallNovelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. Votes: 0
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs. Votes: 0
Bob DylanIn the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. Votes: 0
Henry FieldingWhen writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. Votes: 0
Wright MorrisThe second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. Votes: 0
Martin Van BurenIt is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachGod very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course. Votes: 0
Rose MacaulayPersuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . Votes: 0
Edward GibbonSometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated. Votes: 0
Chirag Tulsiani. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense. Votes: 0
Fanny BurneyThough true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. Votes: 0
Thomas BrooksShe generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). Votes: 0
Lewis CarrollPeople seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithAverage people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. Votes: 0
Robert Charles WilsonHindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. Votes: 0
Marianne MooreExperience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual. Votes: 0
William FeatherGreat occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesPress on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Votes: 0
Robert H. SchullerThroughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis. Votes: 0
James CookIt is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England. Votes: 0
Gertrude AthertonA sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. Votes: 0
Havelock EllisTyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWe seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage. Votes: 0
Laura BushPsychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. Votes: 0
Robert GrudinThe people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonSuccess is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality. Votes: 0
Andy StanleyAchievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. Votes: 0
Richard WagnerWe're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced. Votes: 0
Robert Charles WilsonPeople who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisBashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWhen the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfThe rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. Votes: 0
Philip StanhopeThe rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldIt's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. Votes: 0
Dan BrownThey call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. Votes: 0
George W. BushThe mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films. Votes: 0
Robert RedfordThe great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenWe owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. Votes: 0
Lady Randolph ChurchillThe rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldIt has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. Votes: 0
Arthur BalfourWe're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinThe resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. Votes: 0
Carol ShieldsA business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Votes: 0
Pliny the ElderA pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. Votes: 0
Francois-Andre Danican PhilidorMiracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschOne may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers. Votes: 0
Willa CatherGreat artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenFlirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisPeriods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Votes: 0
George SantayanaPeriods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadWhat originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star. Votes: 0
Dan B. AllenderHairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Votes: 0
Stefan ZweigWe seldom look like the way we look like when people we like are looking. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaThe adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. Votes: 0
James Fitzjames StephenWe would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Votes: 0
Norm MacDonaldLove seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldExperience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. Votes: 0
Francesco GuicciardiniNightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. Votes: 0
Criss JamiThe mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. Votes: 0
Antoine RivarolPity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonThe realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillHeed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. Votes: 0
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du DeffandTrue stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. Votes: 0
Frances HardingeYou very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love. Votes: 0
Alfre WoodardA man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIt is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ... Votes: 0
Margaret OliphantAdvice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldFriends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonLove often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldEven the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWoman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierI seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself. Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMemory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonYou seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. Votes: 0
Robert CormierSimple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadYou seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality. Votes: 0
Karl Albrecht... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. Votes: 0
George EliotI have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. Votes: 0
Saul WilliamsMen seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Votes: 0
Giacomo LeopardiI was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiThe Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. Votes: 0
George SantayanaMen seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevillePeople seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Votes: 0
Anne SullivanLove came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. Votes: 0
Charles Bukowskithe truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. Votes: 0
Georgia HarknessSuccess is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying. Votes: 0
Anna OlsonBut men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. Votes: 0
Robert JordanPeople seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Votes: 0
Anne Sullivan MacyThe definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaPower brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. Votes: 0
Robert HarrisToo many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything. Votes: 0
John KesselI have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinIt is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonPeople often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinLife is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. Votes: 0
Brooks AtkinsonBy being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareBeing a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things. Votes: 0
Asne SeierstadStock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerA man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both. Votes: 0
Ernst BaconWhen you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight. Votes: 0
Thomas BoswellWe wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did. Votes: 0
John LanchesterWealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultTo the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. Votes: 0
W. E. B. Du BoisPeople seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. Votes: 0
Cullen HightowerOil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found. Votes: 0
L. E. J. BrouwerI grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market. Votes: 0
Kariya MundaBut hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns. Votes: 0
John James AudubonWriting wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. Votes: 0
William ZinsserWe seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithIt is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. Votes: 0
Jane AustenOn the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'. Votes: 0
Kinky FriedmanI seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. Votes: 0
Bill BrufordI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral Votes: 0
John BurroughsI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. Votes: 0
John BurroughsThat which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying. Votes: 0
James CookMen often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsHypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! Votes: 0
Denise LevertovIt is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . . Votes: 0
Joanna BaillieChildren have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyerePeople seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time. Votes: 0
Tahereh MafiCharacter is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. Votes: 0
Lord ActonPeople expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. Votes: 0
Amit AbrahamA red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't. Votes: 0
Keith CrownOn the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldBeauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Emersonthey who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. Votes: 0
Fanny FernThe Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleYou wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltA person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeIt is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. Votes: 0
Anya SetonIt is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. Votes: 0
Silius ItalicusIt is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Votes: 0
Amelia BarrTerrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. Votes: 0
Jacques ChiracHe who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ... Votes: 0
Hannah MoreYou have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. Votes: 0
Tom KennyBeauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonA proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherIf I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussHonor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonI seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsIf you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. Votes: 0
Jeff BeckWhat our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be Votes: 0
Stephen King. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevignePower is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. Votes: 0
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxWe can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. Votes: 0
Colin PowellI get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. Votes: 0
Amanda PalmerYou seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut. Votes: 0
Greta ScacchiI seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts. Votes: 0
Gylve NagellLife is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. Votes: 0
Luke RhinehartWe seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonKeeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
Charles M. SchwabWe think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
Edna St. Vincent MillayThose who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWhen you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Paulo CoelhoA stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
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