Seldom Quotes
Sad Quotes about Seldom

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller

Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll

Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings,
as my parents had not much faith in and were never
so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
- Orson Pratt

Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens.
The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert

Great designers seldom make great advertising men,
because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture -
and forget that merchandise must be sold.
- James Randolph Adams

The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius

A building has integrity just like a man.
And just as seldom.
- Ayn Rand

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
- Herbert Kaufman

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up.
- George Santayana

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes,
and for her hair to be combed.
These things she can do herself.
I very seldom go to the hairdresser,
but when I do,
I just marvel.
- Hedy Lamarr

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations,
if it produce nothing useful to the world,
seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
- George Berkeley

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
- Indira Gandhi

Life is made up of constant calls to action,
and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
- Learned Hand

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.
That's why there are so few good conversations:
due to scarcity,
two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
- Truman Capote

The lion is, however, rarely heard -
much more seldom seen.
- John H. Speke

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
- Jerry Kramer

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet -
when they do meet,
their victims lie strewn all round.
- Elizabeth Bowen

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble.
My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of
the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
- Hedy Lamarr

People seldom do what they believe in.
They do what is convenient, then repent.
- Bob Dylan

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure;
seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised,
or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- Samuel Johnson

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today.
It's been quite some time since a younger generation
pushed an older one to a higher standard.
- Wynton Marsalis

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
- Carol Shields

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
- Oliver Goldsmith

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Benjamin Franklin

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible...
What I'm interested in is a compositional process and
a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
- Steve Reich

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
- Alfre Woodard

I work hard, and I tend to play hard.
I very seldom rest hard.
- Jacqueline Bisset

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract,
but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
- Rahm Emanuel

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait
until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man,
but such beings are seldom met with.
- Giacomo Casanova

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance
seldom reached by the best of Guns.
- John James Audubon

When morality comes up against profit,
it is seldom that profit loses.
- Shirley Chisholm

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work,
that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast,
but it goes down just as fast.
Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
- Desi Arnaz

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true -
it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
- Lafcadio Hearn

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 Spencer

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything
than he does of his dinner.
- Samuel Johnson

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy.
It's the adults who get upset.
- Robert Cormier

Simple solutions seldom are.
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know,
to overlook what is before their eyes,
was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
- W. G. Sebald

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
- Aesop

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling
as if I were attending a funeral.
- John Burroughs

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by
which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome,
seldom extinguished.
- Francis Bacon

I seldom end up where I wanted to go,
but almost always end up where I need to be.
- Douglas Adams

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- David Hume

It is unnatural for a majority to rule,
for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action,
and a minority can.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom;
and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Edmund Burke

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as
not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
- Miguel de Cervantes

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed
word can strike dumb the loquacious,
is a genius or a hero.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
- Samuel Richardson

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue -
I seldom leave the country.
- John Hughes

The public seldom forgive twice.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast
upon the optical part of our existence!
We seldom really see the world, but when we do,
we become as still as a picture.
- Robert Musil

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
- Lord Halifax

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err,
or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up.
- Alfred North Whitehead

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
- Jennie Churchill

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
- W. H. Auden