Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 730 authors
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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
— George Savile
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
— David Hume
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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
— James Thomson
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The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
— Bill Copeland
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
— George Gurdjieff
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The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
— Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.
— Nicholas Sparks
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There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
— James Lasdun
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You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.
— Unknown Author
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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less…
— Samuel Johnson
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
— Unknown Author
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The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government...…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a journey.
— Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt
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True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
— Edmund Spenser
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.
— Mark Twain
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
— Olin Miller
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