Seldom Quotes

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If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed.… — Joan Collins
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. — Charles Caleb Colton
The cautious seldom err. — Confucius
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. — Mason Cooley
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. — William Cowper
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. — Bob Dylan
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. — Rahm Emanuel
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,… — Michael Ende
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. — Gary Hamel
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it… — Alexander Hamilton
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. — Thomas Hardy
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. — Napoleon Hill
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. — Frank Herbert
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. — P.D. James

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