The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield

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.
Jasmine Guy

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Ludwig Bemelmans

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
Wynton Marsalis

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields

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

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
Charlotte Rae

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Ivor Novello

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
Daniel H. Hill

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Paul Harris

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
Jerry Kramer

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke