Seldom Quotes

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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. — Desi Arnaz
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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… — Jane Austen
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. — Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. — Francis Bacon
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. — Ansel Adams
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. — Amelia Barr
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is… — Samuel Adams
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for… — Henry Ward Beecher
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. — A. C. Benson
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce
I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. — Jacqueline Bisset
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. — Aesop
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. — Aesop
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. — Edmund Burke

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