(110 quotes found)
“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
Wendell Phillips
“Opportunities are seldom labeled.”
John A. Shedd
“He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.”
John Hume
“Hasty marriage seldom proveth well”
William Shakespeare
“It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part”
Marcel Proust
“A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing”
Mark Twain
“One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”
Simeon Strunsky
