Seldom Quotes

Great and good are seldom the same man.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

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 when it is handed to them.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

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

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

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

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

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

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

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

Strange things have happened, but seldom does it happen.

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

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

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

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

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

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.