Seldom Quotes

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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character. — Aaron Stanford
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem,… — W. S. Gilbert
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another… — Sylvia Plath
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as… — Frank Bartleman
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people… — Alexander Hamilton
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. — Bill Bruford
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. — Quintilian
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about… — Earl Nightingale
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who… — John Charles Polanyi
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should… — Joseph Sobran
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. — Lord Chesterfield
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything. — John Kessel
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn… — Tom Landry
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation. — H. L. Mencken
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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