Seldom Quotes

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Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more… — Brian P. Cleary
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of… — Lord Acton
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and… — Thomas Boswell
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it… — Ben Hecht
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen. — Rebecca Solnit
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates,… — Lord Chesterfield
Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for… — Susan Howatch
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,… — Kay Hooper
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which… — George Bernard Shaw
Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible. — Neale Donald Walsch
Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting. — John Wooden
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. — Carl Jung
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. — Thomas a Kempis
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Dan Simmons
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend… — Reginald Horace Blyth
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
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana
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… — Wilhelm Wundt

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