Quotes 121 till 140 of 152.
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
De stenen dagboeken (2008) 82 -
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXIX -
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
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