A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
I do my job but seldom feel content after matches. If the team wins I am happy, but it remains frustrating.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
The Nazis were seldom dumb and never funny.
The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.
Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.