Seldom - Quotes
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Ideas are like seeds: they are abundant, and most of them never grow into anything. Also, ideas are seldom original. Ask several independent groups to brainstorm on the same topic at the same time, and you will likely get many of the same ideas. This is not a limitation of brainstorming; it is true of all creation. Because everything arises from steps, not leaps, most things are invented in several places simultaneously when different people walk the same path, each unaware of the others.
People who eavesdrop seldom hear good about themselves, right? An old adage, and a true one.
If you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.
In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could have never foreseen.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.