Seldom Quotes

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The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. — Ivan Panin
For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and… — Fred Rogers
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles,… — William Cowper
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. — Lord Chesterfield
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most… — Mark Twain
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. — Joseph Addison
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead… — Thomas Sowell
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake — H. L. Mencken
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Opportunities are seldom labeled. — John G. Shedd
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably… — Daniel Quinn
Things are seldom what they seem. — W. S. Gilbert
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. — W. Somerset Maugham
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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