Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.
I am seldom home, as I keep travelling because of work.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'
I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Market type influences everything a company does. Strategy and tactics for one market type seldom work for another.
If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
