(110 quotes found)
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
Benjamin Franklin
“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales”
Aesop
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
Napoleon Hill
“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.”
Wayne Dyer
“Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
William S. Gilbert
“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.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
David Hume
