#seldom

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#numbers #old #old people #people #read

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#anybody #change #extremely #friends #generally

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. ↗

— Quintilian

#ever #genius #happens #maturity #premature

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. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #low #make #men #men and women

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fittest #less #loves #more #more or less

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #does #earnestness #his #man

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#most #pays #seldom #successful #war

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. ↗

— Helen Keller

#among #breeze #flowers #i #just

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#majority #minority #organized #rule #seldom

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#expect #generally #happens #least #occurs