(110 quotes found)
“Always something new, seldom something good.”
German Proverb
“We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.”
Hermann Hesse
“Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom”
“There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
