Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'…

— Martin Rees

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

— Colin Powell

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

— Hannah More

“I seldom fling children off the tops of towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.”

— George R.R Martin

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

— Dante Alighieri

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our…

— Mike Wallace

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

— Jeff Beck

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…

— E. B. White

“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower