Seldom Quotes

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It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on… — John Henry Newman
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
A family stitched together with love seldom unravels. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual… — Ivy Baker Priest
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to… — H. L. Mencken
Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants… — John C. Maxwell
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly… — Ludwig Bemelmans
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared… — Samuel Johnson
Big words seldom accompany good deeds. — Charlotte Whitton
A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa. — Evan Esar
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model — Jasmine Guy
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much… — Richard Dawkins
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide. — Della Reese
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. — Jack Lemmon
I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to… — Ben Feldman
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used… — Marilyn Monroe

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