Quotes About Seldom

I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

It was enough to marvel at the end of a cycle of reprisals. How seldom it happened, in a long-standing war of hatred, that one side said, "Enough, I deserved that. Let it end here.

Now Mr. Green was so completely a star of a confined orbit, that his ideas seldom described a tangent to their ordinary revolutions.

To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it, said Miss Teatime.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair.

He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

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; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

In our moments of distress we can see clearly that what is wrong with this world of ours is the fact that Misery loves company and seldom gets it.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

The thing I hate most about the gods is the fact that they are seldom at hand when you need them most.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

I remember you,' says the door. 'My prince's lady.' 'You're mistaken,' I say. 'Seldom.' The door swings open with a slight creak that indicates disuse. 'Hail and welcome.

trouble. The Bull hates excess, and seldom messes around with it in any form, but when he slips, he does it the way he does everything else—on a grand scale.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Thus freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. THOMAS MOORE

News these days was a constant play on people's fears, and he seldom watched it.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

But this will not do. No, this will never do. There are continents and shores which beseech our understanding. Seldom have we been so slow. Seldom have we been so far. My only wish is to see Far Arden again.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Good but rarely came from good advice.