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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
— Thomas A Kempis
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
— Margaret Atwood
Justice seldom happens by accident.
— Patricia King
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
— Winston S. Churchill
Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
— Daniel H. Hill
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
— Samuel Johnson
A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.
— Publilius Syrus
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
— Samuel Johnson
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
— Rachel Carson
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
— Austin O'Malley
You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.
— Karl Albrecht
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
— Mignon McLaughlin
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
— E. M. Forster
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
— Dorothy Height
Those who boast are seldom the great.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.
— George R R Martin
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.
— David G. Myers
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
— Anonymous
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
— Carl Van Vechten
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
— Jane Austen
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
— John G. Shedd
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
— Thomas A Kempis
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable
— George Eliot
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
— Phil McGraw
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa Of Avila
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as rewarding.
— Mason Cooley
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
— Herman Melville
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Cautionary Tale: Blood is seldom thicker than blood.
— Kris Waldherr
The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.
— Robert A. Caro
When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
— Shannon L. Alder
I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
— Julia Cameron
The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.
— George R R Martin
You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.
— Zig Ziglar
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
— Simeon Strunsky
Take happiness where you can," he said. "It seldom lasts - 'course, neither does sorrow, right?
— Patricia Briggs
I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.
— Isabella Rossellini
Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.
— George Bernard Shaw
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
— Samuel Richardson
It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.
— Asa Don Brown
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
— Silius Italicus
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
— Anton Chekhov
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
— Milton A. Lee
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There
— David Weber
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Lord Chesterfield
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.
— Hazel Felleman
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Strange, how seldom a person knows which days of his life are tragic and which are happy,
— Tom Reiss
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
— Lord Chesterfield
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
— William Shakespeare
Miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
— Karen Horney
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
— Zig Ziglar
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
— Gilles Menage
Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?
— Lynn G. Robbins
Do not give hope where there is none.Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some. — Rosen Topuzov
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
— Tom Stoppard
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
— Bernard De Mandeville
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
— Walter Scott
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
— David Mamet
