Seldom Quotes

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Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. — Wes Fesler
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours… — Joseph Addison
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom… — Elspeth Huxley
Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims. — Donald J. Boudreaux
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my… — Alice Stewart
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe
Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue… — Lloyd (Bud) Winter
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all — Marilyn Monroe
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful. — John Green
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In… — Michael Ayrton
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. — Judd Nelson

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