Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Rahm Emanuel

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Bernard de Mandeville

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Patrick Kavanagh

What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel Johnson

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Robert Musil

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

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
Linus Torvalds

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
Edward F. Halifax

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert