Seldom Quotes

1113 quotes by 755 authors

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… — Thomas Hardy
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself.… — Carter G. Woodson
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. — Frank Herbert
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed. — Paulo Coelho
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… — Tom Robbins
You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the… — Emily Giffin
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… — Bill Bryson
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. — Robert Jordan
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. — Garrison Keillor
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner. — Margaret Atwood
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. — Thomas Cahill
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,… — Arthur C. Clarke
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling,… — Charlotte Bronte
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we… — Patrick Rothfuss

Who Wrote These Seldom Quotes

755 authors contributed a total of 1,113 Seldom Quotes, led by these top contributors: