Quotes of: Seldom Keyword

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard de Mandeville

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Harvey Mackay

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Daniel Clowes

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

David W. Earle

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

John Cage

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Katharine Anthony

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

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

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Gary Hamel

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Samuel Richardson

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Wilfred Owen

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard de Mandeville

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

A Clash of Kings

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Democracy in America

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The Four Loves

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

The Green Mile

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Gulliver's Travels

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

Anne of Windy Poplars

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)

On Strike Against God