Seldom Quotes
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Love so seldom means happiness.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;
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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
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A worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.
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The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
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I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
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The cautious seldom err.
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The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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...she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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She generally gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.
