Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 730 authors
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Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
— Ernie J Zelinski
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The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable?…
— Ernie J Zelinski
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We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and…
— Black Elk
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A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming…
— Ellen Key
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The wise man is seldom prudent.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.
— Rita Rudner
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Men in high levels of government seldom surf.
— Rita Rudner
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Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
— John Dryden
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Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.
— Stephanie Mills
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When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
— William Cowper
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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable…
— Henry Fielding
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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to…
— Margaret Mead
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
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We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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