Seldom Quotes

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

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

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

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

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

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

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

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

The cautious seldom err.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

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

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.