Seldom Quotes

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

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

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

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Very seldom do parents pay the advertised price tag of a private school.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

When people talk about our linebackers, he's seldom mentioned. But he's the consummate team player. He doesn't care.

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Very seldom to you read about stories like this. It's based on something that happened ... history. I was inspired by it. It really happened and it stayed on my mind. I wanted to be a part of it somehow.

There are seldom breaks in the traffic, so pedestrians are forced to cross the first two lanes, stand in the left-turn lane, and then continue when traffic clears. It's a bad, bad situation.

Once we have the person in our sights and they see us, we seldom have a struggle.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. I keep it vague.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall.

Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.

We seldom have dinner together.

He hated to be away from Judy. He would very seldom spend the night without his wife.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.