Seldom Quotes

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but… — Bertrand Russell
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods!… — Vladimir Nabokov
she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which… — Jane Austen
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late. — G. Edward Griffin
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but… — Aldous Huxley
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to… — Charles Bukowski
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and… — Alan Watts
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home. — Thomas Harris
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are… — Paul Simon
We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced. — Robert Charles Wilson
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,… — Marilyn Manson
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the… — Norman Maclean
There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship. — Sebastian Barry
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately… — James Gleick
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. — H P Lovecraft
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places… — J.R.R. Tolkien
More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who… — Dean Koontz

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